Fortran Evolution

History:

• FORmula TRANslation.
• first compiler: 1957.
• first official standard 1972: `FORTRAN 66'.
• updated in 1980 to FORTRAN 77.
• updated further in 1991 to Fortran 90.
• next upgrade due in 1996 - remove obsolescent features, correct mistakes and add limited basket of new facilities such as ELEMENTAL and PURE user-defined procedures and the FORALL statement.
• Fortran is now an ISO/IEC and ANSI standard.

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