Controversy, Compromise, Modernization: From FORTRAN to Fortran 90
By Jeanne Adams. Describes the evolution of Fortran, focusing on the Fortran 90 standard.
url: www.scd.ucar.edu/tcg/consweb/Fortran90/scnhist.htm...
Fortran 66 standard
In PDF format.
url: www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/ansi-x3do...
Fortran I
Images from and discussion of the first Fortran manual, published in October 1956.
url: www.paulgraham.com/history.html
Fortran II manual
Manual for the 1958 version of Fortran created by IBM.
url: www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/704/C28-2000-2_704_FORTR...
Fortran Programming -- The Early Turning Point
Chapter Excerpt from "Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, & Iconoclasts" by Steve Lohr, discussing the early history of Fortran.
url: inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blgotosample...
Fortran: The First Successful High Level Programming Language
Short essay by Mary Bellis, part of the "Inventors of the Modern Computer Series" series.
url: inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm
IBM 704 Fortran Manual
Manual for the first version of Fortran (1956).
url: www.fortran.com/ibm.html
WATFOR's Silver Anniversary
Describes the history of WATFOR, a dialect of Fortran, from 1965 to 1990.
url: csgwww.uwaterloo.ca/sdtp/watfor.html
