Quote: programming and debugging costs exceeded computer costs; led to FORTRAN, Speedcoding, floating point hardware, and index registers

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FORTRAN did not really grow out of some … a basic problem of economics: programming and debugging … this imbalance became more and more intolerable. This … to my continuing interest in making programming easier. … floating-point as well as indexing built into the …   Google-1   Google-2

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