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Wikipedia: Fortran - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
An encyclopedia description of Fortran history with many links to programming terms. |
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History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II - http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/
Pilot project of the Computer History Museum's Software Collection Committee to develop expertise in the collection, preservation, and presentation of historic software. The specific goal of this project was to locate source code, design documents, and other materials concerning the original IBM 704 FORTRAN compiler. |
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Fortran I - http://www.paulgraham.com/history.html
Images from and discussion of the first Fortran manual, published in October 1956. |
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Fortran: The First Successful High Level Programming Language - http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm
Short essay by Mary Bellis, part of the "Inventors of the Modern Computer Series" series. |
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IBM 704 Fortran Manual - http://www.fortran.com/ibm.html
Manual for the first version of Fortran (1956). |
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Fortran Programming -- The Early Turning Point - http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/Fortran.htm
Chapter Excerpt from "Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts" by Steve Lohr, discussing the early history of Fortran. |
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Fortran Versions - http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-1.html
A brief history of Fortran versions 1 to Fortran 95. |
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Fortran II manual - http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/704/C28-6000-2_704_FORTRANII.pdf
Manual for the 1958 version of Fortran created by IBM. |
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Fortran 77 - http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HTMLF90Course/HTMLF90CourseNotesnode29.html#SECTION00031000000000000000
A brief history of Fortran 77 with some links. |
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Controversy, Compromise, Modernization: From FORTRAN to Fortran 90 - http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/tcg/consweb/Fortran90/scnhist.html
By Jeanne Adams. Describes the evolution of Fortran, focusing on the Fortran 90 standard. |