FORTRAN, developed by John Backus at International Business Machines (IBM) starting in 1954, was the first major programming language to remove the obstacles presented by machine code in the creation of complex programs.
Fortran, cuxo desenvolvemento foi iniciado en 1954 por John Backus en IBM, foi o primeiro gran linguaxe de programación en superar os obstáculos presentados polo código de máquina na creación de programas complexos.