Why Fortran?

Authors:
Michael Metcalf
Affiliations:
Geneva, Switzerland
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum
Year:
1983

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Abstract

FORTRAN, as we have seen, was the first high-level language. Since its introduction it has faced "competition" from a variety of sources, the principal ones being ALGOL and PL/1 in the 1960's, PASCAL in the 1970's, and presumably ADA in the coming decade.