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Subject: Fortran archeology
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Dear Friends,
    It happens quite frequently that people ask on the net about what went
on at some particular epoch of Fortran's existence. I've tried to put
together a brief list of readily-available literature that might help them
to find out (attached). I'd be grateful for any corrections/additions, with
the condition that any addition be reasonably likely to be available in a
good academic library.

Thanks,

Mike Metcalf

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John Backus's original paper was republished in:

          Programming Systems and Languages
          (S. Rosen ed.),
          McGraw Hill, 1967,
          pp. 29-47.

The early history of Fortran (Fortran I to Fortran 77) is documented in:

       Annals of History of Computing,
          6, 1, January, 1984 (whole issue)


       History of Prorammining Languages
          (R.L. Wexelblat ed.),
          Academic Press, 1981,
          pp. 25-74.


       A summary appears in:

          Encyclopedia of Science and Technology,
             Academic Press, 1986,
             vol. 5, under 'Fortran'

       or in=20

          Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, (revised edition)
             Academic Press, 1992,
             vol. 6, under 'Fortran', pp. 632-637.

       See also=20

          Programming language standardisation,
          (I.D. Hill and B.L. Meek, eds.),=20
          Ellis Horwood 1980,=20
          W.S Brainerd, in Chapter 2 (Fortran), p. 34.=20
      =20
A snapshot of the plans for Fortran 90 (then known as Fortran 8x), as=20
foreseen in 1982, appears in:

          Fortran Optimization,
             M. Metcalf
             Academic Press, 1982,
             Chapter 12, pp. 194-210.

       A later snapshot appears in the Revised Edition of 1986.

The story of Fortran 90 is related in:

         Numerical Recipes in Fortran 90
             Cambridge University Press, 1996
             Foreword, pp. x-xvi,

       and in less detail in:

         Fortran 90/95 Explained,
             M. Metcalf & J. Reid
             Oxford University Press,
             Chapter 1, pp. 3-8.

       as well in an article originally published by the late Brian Meek =
in=20
       "Fortran Forum" in 1990 (just before Fortran 90 was adopted) and =
now at:
=20
         http://www.fortran.com/fortran/forsaga.html


       Further backgound information is contained in the articles =
devoted
       to Fortran 90 that comprised a whole issue of the journal:

         "Computer Standards & Interfaces", 18,
             North Holland/Elsevier, 1996.

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