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Re:Jean Sammet, co-creator of COBOL, has died by nn3 on Sunday June 04, 2017 @03:10PM (#14482977)
That's true for COBOL too.

FORTRAN compilers were great for loop optimizations, but not clear if it pioneered much else worthwhile.

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Re:Jean Sammet, co-creator of COBOL, has died by willtim on Sunday June 04, 2017 @04:01PM (#14483213)
FORTRAN pioneered expressions which were used in addition to statements. This was huge. Modern languages are still expanding on the idea of programming with expressions (especially functional languages).
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