In January, Peter Capek told me that while cleaning up a file cabinet in his home he’d come across:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\n\n… a detailed description of the FORTRAN compiler, dated in 1960, and explicitly distinguishing between the 704 and 709 versions, but covering both. It looks like it was typed and what I have is probably not an original, but likely one of very few copies. It’s a couple of hundred pages, and describes each section of the compiler, including table structure, in considerable detail.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Peter very kindly made me a photocopy of this 264-page document, which is a wonderful complement to the actual source code<\/a>. I hope soon to be able to provide web access to this and the other Fortran documents I’ve come across.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Peter is a frequent contributor to alt.folklore.computers<\/a> and supplied information for Frank da Cruz’s “The Columbia University Computer Center in 1965<\/a>” article.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Update<\/strong> 2024\/05\/08: Update URL for alt.folklore.computers and https for Frank’s article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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