Backus, John "The History of FORTRAN I, II and III"

[HOPL I] (1979) SIGPLAN Notices 14(04) April 1979 including The first ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of programming languages (HOPL) Los Angeles, CA, June 1-3, 1978   John Backus

Languages mentioned FORTRAN {1954} Backus et al high-level compiler FORTRAN II {1958} FORTRAN v2 FORTRAN III {1958} Interim Fortran ILLIAC {1954} ILLIAC Assembler PAF {1957} Conversational programming language SHACO {1953} Interpretive symbolic maths system