Clarification of Fortran standards—second report

ABSTRACT

In 1966, after four years of effort, Fortran became the first programming language standardized in the United States. Since that initial achievement, study and application of the standard specifications have revealed the need for maintenance of the standards. As the result of work initiated in 1967, an initial set of clarifying interpretations was prepared and this clarification was published in Communications of the ACM in May 1969. That work has continued and has resulted in the preparation of this second set of clarifying interpretations. The nature of the maintenance and the new set of corrections to and interpretations of the standard specifications are reported.

REFERENCES

• 1: W. P. Heising, History and summary of FORTRAN standardization development for the ASA, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.10, p.590-590, Oct. 1964 [doi>10.1145/364888.364971]
• 2: S. Gorn, FORTRAN vs. Basic FORTRAN: a programming language for informational processing on automatic data processing systems, Communications of the ACM, v.7 n.10, p.591-624, Oct. 1964 [doi>10.1145/364888.876694]
• 3: American National Standard FORTRAN (ANS X3.9-1966). American National Standards Institute, New York, 1966.
• 4: American National Standard Basic FORTRAN (ANS X3.10-1966). American National Standards Institute, New York, 1966.
• 5: Clarification of Fortran standards—initial progress, Communications of the ACM, v.12 n.5, p.289-294, May 1969 [doi>10.1145/362946.363005]

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Keywords:
American National Standard, Basic Fortran, Fortran, language standard clarification, language standard interpretation, language standard maintenance, language standard specification, programming language, standardization, standardization committee