Clarification of Fortran standards—initial progress

1 May 1969

journal article
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM

Vol. 12 (5) , 289-294
https://doi.org/10.1145/362946.363005

Abstract

In 1966, after four years of effort, FORTRAN became the first programming language standardized in the United States. Since that intital achievement, study and application of the standard specifications have revealed the need for maintenance of the standards. As the result of work intiated in 1967, as initial set of clarifying interpretations has been prepared. The nature of the maintenance, corrections to the standard specifications, and completed interpretations are reported.

Keywords

UNITED STATES
LANGUAGE STANDARD CLARIFICATION
FORTRAN
USA STANDARD
STANDARDIZATION
LANGUAGE STANDARD SPECIFICATION
STANDARDIZATION COMMITTEE
LANGUAGE STANDARD INTERPOLATION
INITIAL PROGRESS
STANDARD SPECIFICATION
INITIAL SET
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE STANDARD MAINTENANCE
INTITAL ACHIEVEMENT
BASIC FORTRAN
FORTRAN STANDARD

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FORTRAN vs. Basic FORTRAN
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Communications of the ACM, 1964