- Hadley Peak is a rather low-prominence peak (~400 feet) on the north flank of Mt. Baker where Chowder Ridge and Dobbs cleaver meet. The views are great, the peak just doesn’t stand out from a distance due to always having Baker in the background from all viewpoints. The wide Hadley Glacier spans the North flank of the peak, draining into Dobbs Creek.
- THE HISTORY OF FORTRAN I, II, AND III (computerhistory.org)
Before 1954 almost all programming was done in machine language or assembly language. Programmers rightly regarded their work as a complex, creative art that required human inventiveness to produce an efficient program. Much of their effort was devoted to overcoming the difficulties created by the computers of that era: the lack of index registers, the lack of built-in floating point operations, restricted instruction sets (which might have AND but not OR, for example), and primitive input-output arrangements. Given the nature of computers, the services which “automatic programming” performed for the programmer were concerned with overcoming the machine’s shortcomings. Thus the primary concern of some “automatic programming” systems was to allow the use of symbolic addresses and decimal numbers (e.g., the MIDAC Input Translation Program [Brown and Carr 1954]).