Questions tagged [fortran]
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What did the DoD think Fortran lacked?
According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBOL the project to design COBOL began when
On 28 and 29 May 1959 (exactly one year after the Zürich ALGOL 58 meeting), a meeting was held at the Pentagon ...
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Does a CDC 1604 emulator exist with a functional FORTRAN compiler?
The first FORTRAN compiler for the Soviet BESM-6 mainframe was written by means of manually retargeting the assembly code of the CDC 1604 FORTRAN compiler donated by CERN to JINR.
As a result is it ...
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Why did the assigned goto statement in Fortran need a label list?
FORTRAN had an 'assigned goto' statement. Firstly, a statement number is assigned to a variable:
ASSIGN 42 TO L
Subsequently, one can obey
GOTO L
which (given the preceding ASSIGN) would transfer ...
