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| title = The World's First COBOL Compilers
| title = The World's First COBOL Compilers
| accessdate = 2012-03-24}}</ref>, based on the legal meaning of [[compilation]], since her translator for the A-0 language merely put together various snippets of pre-built code.
| accessdate = 2012-03-24}}</ref>, based on the legal meaning of [[compilation]], since her translator for the A-0 language merely put together various snippets of pre-built code.
The first translator which matched the current computer definition of a compiler, was the [[Fortran]] compiler for the IBM 704 computer. The Fortran manual was published in October 1956, and the compiler itself was made available to users in April 1957.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://eprints.cs.vt.edu/archive/00000875/01/CS82010-R.pdf
| title = Twenty five years of Fortran
| format = pdf
| accessdate = 2012-03-27}}</ref>
==Outline of the compilation process==
==Outline of the compilation process==