FORTRAN III(ID:2051/for059)

Interim Fortran 

Limited internal modification, featuring inline Assembler


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FORTRAN II => FORTRAN III   Evolution of
FORTRAN III => FORTRAN IV   Evolution of
FORTRAN III => S3 Fortran   Enhancement of
References:
  • Ziller, I., "Description of Source Language Additions to the FORTRAN II System" Unpublished memorandum, Programming Research Dept., IBM Corp., New York, [1958] view details Abstract: This document proposes the extensions to FORTRAN II to create
    FORTRAN III, which was a very short-lived system. The fundamental
    addition was the allowance of symbolic statements intermixed with
    FORTRAN Ststements. [Backus abstract]
  • Sammet, Jean E "1960 Tower of Babel" diagram on the front of CACM January 1961 view details

          in [ACM] CACM 4(01) (Jan 1961) view details
  • Sammet, Jean E., "Programming languages: history and future" view details
          in [ACM] CACM 15(06) (June 1972) view details
  • Backus, John "The History of FORTRAN I, II and III" view details
          in 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 view details