EBK CONCEPTS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
EBK CONCEPTS OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
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Author: Sebesta
Publisher: RENT PEARS
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Programming language that dominated the scientific computing:

Late in 1940s and early 1950s people saw the emergence of computers for scientific purposes.

  • Scientific operations needed powerful computations and computers.
  • Fortran was used for scientific computing over about six past decades...

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