FORTRAN

Dorothy, seeking a book that will teach her about FORTRAN, gets thrown out of a public library for daring to browse in the whites-only section.

He stimulated the ambitions of many young scientists and conducted his own analyses of the data using FORTRAN, an early programming language, and an ancient graphics package hosted on a Chicago computer.

FORTRAN, the first successful, higher-level programming language was designed to let engineers and scientists write programs in a vernacular that closely resembled math formulas familiar to them.

By far the most important of the new programming languages was FORTRAN; until recently, it has been estimated, more than 90 percent of all scientific and engineering programs were written in it.

The chess program had been started using FORTRAN, one of the early computer languages.