FORTRAN's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary

Special Issue of the Annals of the History of Computing - Volume 6, Number 1, January 1984
J.A.N. Lee and H.S. Tropp, editors.

J.A.N. Lee. Pioneer Day, 1982. Pages 7-14.
List of FORTRAN Implementations

• John C. McPherson. Early Computers and Computing Institutions. Pages 15-16.
• Robert W. Bemer. Computing Prior to FORTRAN. Pages 16-18.
• Richard Goldberg. Register Allocation in FORTRAN I. Pages 19-20.
• Roy Nutt. Compiler Techniques Available in 1954. Pages 20-22.
• Frances E. Allen. A Technological Review of the Early FORTRAN Compilers. Pages 22-26.
• John Backus. Afterword. Pages 26-27.

• Herbert S. Bright. Early FORTRAN User Experience. Pages 28-30.
• Robert A. Hughes. Early FORTRAN at Livermore. Pages 30-31.
• William P. Heising. The Emergence of FORTRAN IV from FORTRAN II. Pages 31-32.
• Martin N. Greenfield. The Impact of FORTRAN Standardization. Page 33.
• Daniel D. McCracken. The Early History of FORTRAN Publications. Pages 33-34.
• Charles Davidson. The Emergence of Load-and-Go Systems for FORTRAN. Pages 35-37.
• James M. Sakoda. A Dynamic Storage Allocation Language--DYSTAL. Pages 37-38.
• Bruce Rosenblatt. The Successors to FORTRAN--Why Does FORTRAN Survive? Pages 39-40.

Daniel N. Leeson. IBM FORTRAN Exhibit and Film. Pages 41-48.

J.A.N. Lee. An Annotated Bibliography of FORTRAN. Pages 49-58.

Henry S. Tropp, editor. FORTRAN Anecodotes. Pages 59-64.

• FORTRAN Celebration at IBM Santa Theresa Laboratory.
• Elliot C. Nohr. FORTRAN Activities at SHARE Meeting.

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