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Clarification of Fortran standards—initial progress

Communications of the ACM, May 1969, Vol. 12 No. 5, Pages 289-294
10.1145/362946.363005
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In 1966, after four years of effort, FORTRAN became the first programming language standardized in the United States. Since that intital achievement, study and application of the standard specifications have revealed the need for maintenance of the standards. As the result of work intiated in 1967, as initial set of clarifying interpretations has been prepared. The nature of the maintenance, corrections to the standard specifications, and completed interpretations are reported.

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