History and summary of FORTRAN standardization development for the ASA

  • Authors:
  • W. P. Heising

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1964

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Abstract

The American Standards Association (ASA) Sectional Committee X3 for Computers and Information Processing was established in 1960 under the sponsorship of the Business Equipment Manufacturers Association. ASA X 3 in turn established an X3.4 Sectional Subcommittee to work in the area of common programming language standards. On May 17, 1962, X3.4 established by resolution a working group, X3.4.3-FORTRAN to develop American Standard FORTRAN proposals.