PoopShoot1102 Posted:

what’s 4chan?

4chan (previously 4CHAN;[note 1] blends derived from IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) is a general-purpose,[note 2] procedural,[note 3] imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California[1] in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, 4chan came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, computational chemistry, and electricity supply systems state estimation. It is one of the most popular languages in the area of high-performance computing[citation needed] and is the language used for programs that benchmark and rank the world’s fastest supercomputers.[2][not in citation given]

4chan encompbumes a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions. Successive versions have added support for processing of character-based data (4CHAN 77), array programming, modular programming and object-based programming (4chan 90 / 95), and object-oriented and generic programming (4chan 2003).