A brief history of Fortran

• FORTRAN = FORmula TRANlation

• John Backus + 13 programmers at IBM for IBM 704 [1954-1957]

• Other manufacturers developped FORTRAN for their machines

• Portability = standards!

• Fortran 66 à Fortran 77 à Fortran 90 à Fortran 95 à Fortran 2000

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