The FORTRAN Programming Language. History. One of the oldest programming languages, the FORTRAN was developed by a team of programmers at IBM led by John Backus, and was first published in 1957. The name FORTRAN is an acronym for FORmula TRANslation, because it was designed to allow easy translation of math formulas into code.
Al Gore, though not divorced from wife Tipper, confirmed he is indeed dating environmental activist Elizabeth Keadle. âI donât want to get into my personal life, but weâre a couple,â the 66-year-old former presidential candidate told Politico.
The idea that Al Gore claimed credit for inventing the Internet almost immediately became what itâs been ever since: a punch line for late-night comedians. It shares this distinction with the questionable claim that Gore and his then-wife Tipper were the inspiration for the novel and movie Love Story.