Category: How was it made
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Fortran. The Beginning Of Scientific Computing
Fortran, short for “Formula Translation,” is one of the earliest high-level programming languages. It was developed in the 1950s by IBM to facilitate scientific and engineering calculations. In the early 1950s, scientific and engineering calculations were performed using machine code or assembly language, which was cumbersome and error-prone. There was a need for a more…
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The Most Significant Programming Languages In Chronological Order
Programming Language Release Year Creator(s) Primary Purpose Fortran 1957 IBM (John Backus and team) Scientific and engineering calculations Lisp 1958 John McCarthy Symbolic computation and AI research COBOL 1959 Committee of experts (Grace Hopper) Business data processing and commercial applications ALGOL 1958 International Committee (Peter Naur) Algorithmic language for scientific computation BASIC 1964 John Kemeny…
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Simply about streaming services
Streaming service is like a place where you can watch movies, TV shows, and listen to music directly from the internet. Instead of buying or renting DVDs or CDs, you can use a streaming service to watch or listen to whatever you want on your computer, tablet, mobile phone, or even your TV as long…
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What is a Web Hosting
In simple terms web hosting is renting space on the internet to store your website. We need physical space in our homes to store belongings, and a website needs a space on the internet to keep data like pictures and text so it can exist and be accessible to others. When someone types your website’s…
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So why the computers were made?
The reason we live in fear counting days before doomsday (technological singularity) is that the 19th century people just couldn’t wait any longer. Suddenly they got tired of doing stuff manually. Computers were created to automate repetitive tasks and perform complex calculations much faster and more accurately than humans could. This was important for scientific…