The history of Fortran I, II, and III

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 68-78

  Backus, John ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^b IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING;

AUTOMATIC PROGRAMMING; FORTRAN GROUP; OPTIMIZING COMPILER;

FORTRAN (PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE);

EID: 0032183186     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.728232     Document Type: Review

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