{"id":8,"date":"2004-02-22T19:08:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-23T02:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/02\/22\/8\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T19:13:41","modified_gmt":"2024-05-08T02:13:41","slug":"the-tome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/02\/22\/8\/","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018Tome\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tonight after rereading John Backus&#8217;s 1981 &#8220;History of Fortran I, II, and III&#8221; * paper and recalling the discussion between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2003\/12\/11\/13\/\">Dick Sites and Len Shustek<\/a> regarding the Fortran documentation Dick had seen in the 1960s, I decided to start asking people specifically about the \u2018Tome\u2019 as well as, more generally, &#8220;the source code&#8221; (which might be in the form of an assembly listing, magnetic tape, or even punched cards).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* See <a href=\"https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/800025.1198345\">https:\/\/dl.acm.org\/doi\/10.1145\/800025.1198345<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong> 2024\/05\/07: Added footnote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight after rereading John Backus&#8217;s 1981 &#8220;History of Fortran I, II, and III&#8221; * paper and recalling the discussion between Dick Sites and Len Shustek regarding the Fortran documentation Dick had seen in the 1960s, I decided to start asking people specifically about the \u2018Tome\u2019 as well as, more generally, &#8220;the source code&#8221; (which might &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/archives\/2004\/02\/22\/8\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The \u2018Tome\u2019&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fortran"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1294,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcjones.org\/dustydecks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}