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History of Fortran.

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• Fortran 66 Standard

  http://www.eah-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/ansi-x3dot9-1966-Fortran66.pdf
  Scanned copy of the ANSI document.

• Fortran 77

  http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HTMLF90Course/HTMLF90CourseNotesnode29.html#SECTION00031000000000000000
  A brief history of Fortran 77 with some links.

• Fortran I

  http://www.paulgraham.com/history.html
  Images from and discussion of the first Fortran manual, published in October 1956.

• 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.

• 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.

• Fortran Versions

  http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-1.html
  A brief history of Fortran versions 1 to Fortran 95.

• 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.

• 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.

• IBM 704 Fortran Manual

  http://www.fortran.com/ibm.html
  Manual for the first version of Fortran (1956).

• The Fortran (Not the Foresight) Saga

  http://www.fortran.com/fortran/forsaga.html
  An essay by Brian Meek which documents the creation of the Fortran 90 standard.

• Wikipedia: Fortran

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
  An encyclopedia description of Fortran history with many links to programming terms.

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