History (Fortran)

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Fortran 77 A brief history of Fortran 77 with some links. http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HTMLF90Course/HTMLF90CourseNotesnode29.html#SECTION00031000000000000000 Fortran Versions A brief history of Fortran versions 1 to Fortran 95. http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-1.html Fortran Programming -- The Early Turning Point Chapter Excerpt from "Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, & Iconoclasts" by Steve Lohr, discussing the early history of Fortran. http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgotosample.htm Fortran: The First Successful High Level Programming Language Short essay by Mary Bellis, part of the "Inventors of the Modern Computer Series" series. http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm Fortran I Images from and discussion of the first Fortran manual, published in October 1956. http://www.paulgraham.com/history.html Controversy, Compromise, Modernization: From FORTRAN to Fortran 90 By Jeanne Adams. Describes the evolution of Fortran, focusing on the Fortran 90 standard. http://www.scd.ucar.edu/tcg/consweb/Fortran90/scnhist.html IBM 704 Fortran Manual Manual for the first version of Fortran (1956). http://www.fortran.com/ibm.html WATFOR's Silver Anniversary Describes the history of WATFOR, a dialect of Fortran, from 1965 to 1990. http://csgwww.uwaterloo.ca/sdtp/watfor.html Wikipedia: Fortran An encyclopedia description of Fortran history with many links to programming terms. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran Fortran 66 standard In PDF format. http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/ansi-x3dot9-1966-Fortran66.pdf Fortran II manual Manual for the 1958 version of Fortran created by IBM. http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/704/C28-2000-2_704_FORTRANII.pdf

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