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Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainframe ...
Vol. 3. Edited by Richard Goodman, assisted by R. M. Paine, C. Strachey and M. Woodger. (International Tracts in Computer Science and Technology and their Application ...