CSCI 431 — Fortran

“Blanks were ignored, even blanks in the middle of an identifier.” — John Bachus.

Historical stuff

• New York Times on FORTRAN
• John Backus

Fortran I, II, III, IV, ...

• The Fortran Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704
• Backus’ History of Fortran I, II, and III
• FORTRAN I
• FORTRAN II
  • FORTRAN II program
• FORTRAN 66 or FORTRAN IV
  • Fortran IV program
• FORTRAN 77
  • the big documentationm
  • cleaning up
• Fortran 90
  • cleaning up
• FORTRAN 95
• The new features for Fortran 2018

Programs from Chris Godfrey

These programs were written by Chris Godfrey from our ATMS department.

• Volume of a sphere
• Roots of quadratic equation
• Function examples
• Sodano calculation — used by Python programs
• for Oklahome Mesonet data