IP: Fortran is 42 today

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 11:34:23 -0400
>From: Tim Finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
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>To: "farber@cis.upenn.edu" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Fortran is 42 today
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>Dave -- Hank Katz is a lecturer in our Department.  He recently retired from
>a career in the DoD.  He has had a long involvemtn with Fortran and
>served on some of the standardization committees.  Tim
>
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>From: KATZ@umbc2.umbc.edu
>Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 09:19:23 -0500 (EST)
>Subject: Birthday today
>To: csee@cs.umbc.edu
>
>42 years ago, this date, the first Fortran compiler was released.
>IBM shipped it on tape to Westinghouse-Bettis in Pittsburg to
>aid them in the design of nuclear  power reactors.
>
>It was to rujn on an IBM 704, which had 4K of RAM and three
>CPU registers.
>
>Hank Katz