{"id":106,"date":"2009-10-14T18:16:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T01:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/?p=106"},"modified":"2024-09-05T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-05T21:10:00","slug":"wired-appreciates-fortran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2009\/10\/14\/106\/","title":{"rendered":"WIRED appreciates FORTRAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/\">WIRED<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/thisdayintech\/\">THIS DAY IN TECH<\/a> feature for tomorrow is<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/thisdayintech\/2009\/10\/1015fortran-launch\">Oct. 15, 1956: Fortran Forever Changes Computing\u2019s Fortunes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The article links to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarepreservation.org\/projects\/FORTRAN\/\">Software Preservation Group FORTRAN<\/a> web site and uses a photograph of John Backus and John Cocke from a souvenir matchbook cover from Capt. Starn&#8217;s Restaurant and Bar in Atlantic City, New Jersey, year unknown:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.computerhistory.org\/resources\/text\/Fortran\/102679274.05.01.sm.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wired.com\/photos\/59337e2f9aae0b5821d6c67a\/master\/w_2240,c_limit\/backus-318x358-custom1.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Updated<\/strong> 2024\/09\/05: Wired URLs changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WIRED&#8216;s THIS DAY IN TECH feature for tomorrow isOct. 15, 1956: Fortran Forever Changes Computing\u2019s Fortunes. The article links to the Software Preservation Group FORTRAN web site and uses a photograph of John Backus and John Cocke from a souvenir matchbook cover from Capt. Starn&#8217;s Restaurant and Bar in Atlantic City, New Jersey, year unknown: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2009\/10\/14\/106\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;WIRED appreciates FORTRAN&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[14,15],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortran","tag-john-backus","tag-john-cocke"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1431,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}