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		madhadron on Aug 18, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Maybe We Should Stop Creating Inscrutable CLIs > The very first compiled computer language was COBOL FORTRAN and Lisp both predate COBOL.

teddyh on Aug 18, 2019 [–]

Lisp was never compiled that early; that came much later.

But sure, I stand corrected; FORTRAN was technically the first compiled high-level language.

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