(j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4198) RE: 43 Fortran compilers

[Loren P Meissner]

There was some Fortran language research going on at Univ of Waterloo (in
Ont, Canada) by 1974.
My copy of papers from JPL/SIGNUM Fortran Preprocessor Workshop (Nov 1974)
[which was largely motivated by Fortran response to the "structured
programming" fad] includes a one-page paper "Designing a portable
preprocessor" by M Malcolm and L Rogers of Waterloo. It mentions "Altran
translator and run-time support software are written in portable Fortran
except for some M6 macro calls . The M6 macro processor is written in
portable Fortran ." - Was this "portable Fortran" the same as "Waterloo
Fortran"?

Loren P Meissner
(Have you ever imagined a world without hypothetical situations?)


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Ian D Chivers wrote:
> I would be interested in knowing what they were.
> 
> I worked at Imperial College from 1978-1986 On CDC kit mainly (6400, 
> 6500, 170, 174) and we had
>   
>   CDC Fortran
>   Minnesota Fortran

Indeed, M77.  I looked at the manual and found that, in 1980, M77 had the
radical extension of A .op. B where op was and, or, xor, ... and A and B
were numeric type variables, with the operations bitwise.  Only 30 years
ago.  Maybe this idea needs a bit more time to mature. :)

Cheers
Bill


> 
> As the main two supported Fortran compilers.
> 
> I also vaguely remember a Waterloo Fortran.
> 
> There was a CDC 1700 and I think that had a Fortran compiler.
> Would that have counted as another compiler?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> ian
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org [mailto:j3-bounces at j3-fortran.org] On 
> Behalf Of David Muxworthy
> Sent: 01 March 2010 17:47
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> Subject: (j3.2006) (SC22WG5.4197) 43 Fortran compilers
> 
> One or two people seemed surprised when I said at the WG5 meeting that 
> there were 43 Fortran compilers in the early 1960s.  The figure was 
> taken from Oswald, H. (1964), 'The various Fortrans', Datamation vol 
> 10 (August), pp 25-29.  Oswald was reviewing 16 different Fortran 
> systems.  I think I also said outside the meeting that the first 
> Fortran on a non-IBM machine was in 1961-2.  In fact it was in 1960 on 
> a Philco 2000, but not called Fortran.  The first non-IBM 'Fortran' 
> was on a Univac SS80 in 1961.
> 
> David
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