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Subject: Re: Various Fortrans
Keywords: Fortran standard
Message-ID: <1990Aug15.035133.6722@nlm.nih.gov>
Date: 15 Aug 90 03:51:33 GMT
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Reply-To: states@tech.NLM.NIH.GOV (David States)
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wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd) writes:
>> 	1953	FORTRAN I
>The first Fortran compiler was not delivered until 1957.
>I heard it was to General Electric; can anyone confirm/refute that?
>Not sure when someone actually started working on it.

I know that the GE Laboratories in Schnectedy NY were working with
Fortran in the 50s.  The precise dates and whether it was the first
site I don't know.

>> 	19??	FORTRAN II  ?
>> 	19??	FORTRAN III ?
>> 	1966	FORTRAN IV
>This was a vendor product (IBM); other vendors had other various names.
>The standard based on this generation became called Fortran 66
>only after work started on Fortran 77.

Don't forget Fortran IV Plus, a series of DEC extensions to Fortran IV
which eventually matured into VMS Fortran and shipped with the first
VAXs (~1975).  Although many of the VMS Fortran extensions were derived
from or incorporated into Fortran 77, many were not and VMS Fortran
remains a distinct dialect in active use.

>> 	1977	FORTRAN 77
>This, of course, was (still is) a standard....
>--
>Walt Brainerd        Sun Microsystems, Inc.

David States