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Written Contributions to "Fifty Years of Fortran" Meeting
Held on Thursday 25th January, 2007 at
BCS London Office,
First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA
My early FORTRAN experience -
David Muxworthy, BSI Fortran Convenor
The First Two Decades, An Overview of
the Activities of the FSG, 1970-1990 - David Muxworthy, BSI
Fortran Convenor
A Review of Some Dialects of FORTRAN -
David Muxworthy and Brian Shearing, 2nd Edition, August 1970
Following by chance in the
Masters' foot prints - T.L. van Raalte, formerly AWE
Blacknest
GEDESS: A Series of Computer Programs
(FORTRAN) for Deriving Information at Selected Recording Sites for Signals from
Known (Seismic) Hypocentres - John Young, International
Seismological Centre
A Chronology of Programs Using
Command Line Instructions - John Young, International
Seismological Centre
Some Early UK FORTRAN Compilers -
Brian Chapman, formerly AWRE Harwell
Forty Years Ago with Fortran IV -
John Lyon, formerly Boeing Seattle
My FORTRAN Experiences -
Josef Illes
My comments on FORTRAN versus Algol -
Josef Illes
My comments on FORTRAN versus Algol -
Peter Crouch, Chairman Fortran SG
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Stanley Hagstrom, Franklin Prosser, Stephen Young,
Indiana
University FASTRAN (FAST FORTRAN II) compiler Research Computing
Center, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1964
J. W. Backus, F. L. Bauer, J. Green, C. Katz, J. McCarthy, A. J. Perlis,
H. Rutishauser, K. Samelson, B. Vauquois, J. H. Wegstein, A. van Wijngaarden,
M. Woodger, P. Naur,
Revised
Report on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60, Communications of the ACM,
Volume 6 Number 1, pages 1-17, January 1963
Software
Pioneer Peter Naur Wins ACM's Turing Award - ACM MemberNet, Volume 5
Number 1, March 2006
Peter Crouch, The
Origins of FORTRAN, Resurrection, Number 41, pages 23-33, Autumn
2007
Bibliography
J.W. Backus, R.J. Beeber, S. Best, R. Goldberg, L.M. Haibt, H.L. Herrick,
R.A. Nelson, D. Sayre, P.B. Sheridan, H.J. Stern, I. Ziller, R.A. Hughes,
R. Nutt,
The
FORTRAN automatic coding system, Proceedings Western Joint Computer
Conference, Los Angeles, California, pages 188-198, February 1957
J.W. Backus and W.P. Heising,
FORTRAN,
IEEE Transactions on Electronic Computers, EC-13, Number 4, pages 382-385
August 1964
J.W. Backus,
The
history of FORTRAN I, II and III, Proceedings First ACM SIGPLAN Conference on History of
Programming Languages, Los Angeles, pages 165-180, 1978
J.A.N. Lee and H.S. Tropp, Editors,
Special
Issue - FORTRAN's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Annals of the History of
Computing, Volume 6 Number 1, January 1984
M.R. Adamson,
Harvard
Lomax (1922-1999), IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, Volume 27
Number 3, pages 98-101, July-September 2005
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Please Note
If you would like to make a written contribution to the above record of the meeting
please contact me.
Peter Crouch, Chairman and Web Editor,
Fortran SG.
Comments on this or any other of the Group's pages should be sent by e-mail to the
FSG Web Editor.
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