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Volume 2 ,  Issue 1  (March 1983) table of contents
Pages: 13 - 14  
Year of Publication: 1983
ISSN:1061-7264
Author
Michael Metcalf  Geneva, Switzerland
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

FORTRAN, as we have seen, was the first high-level language. Since its introduction it has faced "competition" from a variety of sources, the principal ones being ALGOL and PL/1 in the 1960's, PASCAL in the 1970's, and presumably ADA in the coming decade.


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ANSI (1978). Programming language FORTRAN, X3.9-1978, (ANSI, New York).
 
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M. Metcalf, An introduction to FORTRAN 77, CERN report DD/US/11 (1982).
 
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H. Klein and J. Zoll, PATCHY reference manual, (CERN, Geneva, 1977).
 
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I. Willers (ed.), High-level languages at CERN, CERN report DD/MCM/76/60 (1976).
 
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J. Barnes, Programming in ADA (Addison-Wesley, London, 1982).
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