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This is considered as the beginning of general-purpose programming. ( Image credits : NASA and MIT_CSAIL )
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Any idea what that first program was?
I'm guessing "Hello world" followed shortly by "send nudes".
Considering fortran was designed for numerical computation, it was probably a east to check mathematical identity like n*(n+1)/2 = 0 + 1 + 2 + ... + n