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FORTRAN: IBM’s Compiler Investment That Made Scientific Software Scale

FORTRAN was a software investment made to lower the cost of using IBM hardware. The compiler took years longer than planned, but it made scientific programming dramatically more productive and helped turn software into a strategic corporate asset.

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