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From: pockrand@cs.umn.edu (Mitch Pockrandt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Dates for the different versions of FORTRAN?
Message-ID: <1990Aug13.145301.20663@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 13 Aug 90 14:53:01 GMT
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In article <3093.26c6b1cd@cc.curtin.edu.au> North_TJ@cc.curtin.edu.au (Tim North) writes:
>Hi,
>	I'm running a class on various programming languages, and I'm doing a
>couple of lectures on FORTRAN. I'm not really sure of the different versions
>of FORTRAN that have appeared over the years, though. I'd really appreciate it
>if someone could make corrections/additions to the following table:
>
>	1953	FORTRAN I
>	19??	FORTRAN II  ?
>	19??	FORTRAN III ?
>	1966	FORTRAN IV         <***** ??? (see below)
>	1977	FORTRAN 77
>	198?	FORTRAN 8X
>	1990?   FORTRAN 90  ?
>
Time for some confusion on my  part.  I used to use Fortran 66 on IBMs
mainframes (FORTG and FORTG1 as I recall).  At the time I was under
the impression that Fortran IV was a newer different beast (not
necessarily blessed by ANSI or any such body) that had come about in
the early 1970's to take care of some of the shortcomings of Fortran
66.  At least on the Burroughs equipment I worked on 12 years ago, we
had a Fortran IV compiler (FORTIV) which was different from the
Fortran 66 extended workhorse we frequently used.

Any body else remember or know?

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