From owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Mon Mar 1 18:44:56 2010 Return-Path: X-Original-To: sc22wg5-dom8 Delivered-To: sc22wg5-dom8@www2.open-std.org Received: by www2.open-std.org (Postfix, from userid 521) id 3664BC178DF; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:44:56 +0100 (CET) X-Original-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Delivered-To: sc22wg5@open-std.org Received: from mk-filter-3-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com (mk-filter-3-a-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com [212.74.100.54]) by www2.open-std.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47279C178D9 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 18:44:54 +0100 (CET) X-Trace: 352635245/mk-filter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com/B2C/$b2c-THROTTLED-DYNAMIC/b2c-CUSTOMER-DYNAMIC-IP/88.106.99.210/None/d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 88.106.99.210 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: d.muxworthy@bcs.org.uk X-SMTP-AUTH: X-MUA: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApEBAKdmi0tYamPS/2dsb2JhbAAH1kOEewQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.49,561,1262563200"; d="scan'208";a="352635245" Received: from 88-106-99-210.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com (HELO [192.168.1.2]) ([88.106.99.210]) by smtp.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 01 Mar 2010 17:44:53 +0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <99D51A3D-0691-4588-882F-A28B1EDC9118@bcs.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed To: sc22wg5@open-std.org From: David Muxworthy Subject: 43 Fortran compilers Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2010 17:46:33 +0000 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) Sender: owner-sc22wg5@open-std.org Precedence: bulk One or two people seemed surprised when I said at the WG5 meeting that there were 43 Fortran compilers in the early 1960s. The figure was taken from Oswald, H. (1964), 'The various Fortrans', Datamation vol 10 (August), pp 25-29. Oswald was reviewing 16 different Fortran systems. I think I also said outside the meeting that the first Fortran on a non-IBM machine was in 1961-2. In fact it was in 1960 on a Philco 2000, but not called Fortran. The first non-IBM 'Fortran' was on a Univac SS80 in 1961. David