wsb@boise.Eng.Sun.COM (Walt Brainerd) (08/15/90)
> 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. > 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. > 1977 FORTRAN 77 This, of course, was (still is) a standard. > 198? FORTRAN 8X Others have straightened this out. > 1990? FORTRAN 90 ? The correct way to write it (per the standard itself) is Fortran 90 (c/lc). The final ballot to make Fortran 90 an ISO standard is being taken this fall. There is very little doublt that this will be a standard early next year. -- Walt Brainerd Sun Microsystems, Inc. wsb@eng.sun.com MS MTV 5-40 Mountain View, CA 94043 415/336-5991
usenet@nlm.nih.gov (usenet news poster) (08/15/90)
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