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From: bk7295@leah.Albany.Edu (Brian A. Kell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.fortran
Subject: Re: Dates for the different versions of FORTRAN?
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Date: 14 Aug 90 17:38:49 GMT
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The oroginal poster requested information on where to find a
summary of the `history' of FORTRAN, and here's my suggestion:

Any decent-sized college or university library should have a
fair number of books on various languages, including FORTRAN.
However, because the 'state-of-the-art' changes so much, many (most?) 
of these books will be horribly out-of-date.  Just looking at the
titles and copyright dates (and maybe the prefaces) should give a 
quick-and-dirty summary of FORTRAN's history...

Brian A. Kell
SUNY/Albany Department of Computer Science
brian@isadora.albany.edu
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