Birth of FORTRAN: Backus, IBM and the 704

1954-1957 — the team that built the first successful high-level language, told by the people who were there and the storytellers who came after.

Playlist by @birth_of_fortran

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. FORTRAN in 100 Seconds — Fireship
2. How They Created - Fortran | World's First Programming Language | — Confiance Labs
3. The Untold Story of FORTRAN — CodeSource
4. The Beginnings of FORTRAN (Complete) — vulcanhammerinfo
5. Backus describes the creation of FORTRAN, — Turing Awardee Clips
6. TheHistory of Fortran Part 1 — runnin0nempty
7. Fortran - the first high-level programming language with a compiler [part 1] — featon
8. World's First Programming Language | Programming | FORTRAN — The Coding Koala
9. FORTRAN: A Turning Point in History 2012 — Kolby Nottingham
10. Short documentary aired in 1982 for the 25th anniversary of FORTRAN. — Rodrigo R. Paz