Episode 003 of Next Without For, Fortran, is posted!
Direct Link to MP3:
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Links from the episode:
The History of Fortran I, II, and III: John Backus - ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Vol. 13, No. 8, August 1978: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/p165-backus.pdf
Wikipedia articles:
Fortran - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran
IBM 704 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_704
FORTRAN - the Pioneering Programming Language: https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/ibm100/us/en/icons/fortran/
TIOBE Language Index: https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
Abstracting Away the Machine: The History of the Fortran Programming Language, Mark Jones Lorenzo, published 2019 - https://www.amazon.com/Abstracting-Away-Machine-Programming-TRANslation/dp/1082395943/
The most comprehensive account of Fortran history in a single document:
Fortran IV Programming for Engineers and Scientists, Second Edition, by Paul W. Murrill & Cecil L. Smith, published 1973 - https://www.amazon.com/Fortran-Programming-Murrill-Cecil-Smith/dp/B0015G0N0U
Fortran 77: A Structured, Disciplined Style, by Gordon B. Davis and Thomas R. Hoffman - https://www.amazon.com/Fortran-77-Structured-Disciplined-Style/dp/0070159033
Theory and Problems of Programming with Fortran Including Structured Fortran, Schaum’s Outline Series, by Seymour Lipschutz and Arthur Poe - https://www.amazon.com/Schaums-Problems-Programming-Including-Structured/dp/B000MHO8SQ
The Fortran I Compiler (PDF) - https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/cs/cs339/cs339.2002/fortran.pdf
