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	Fortran 77 URL: http://www.liv.ac.uk/HPC/HTMLF90Course/HTMLF90CourseNotesnode29.html#SECTION00031000000000000000 ODP description: A brief history of Fortran 77 with some links. Page title: A Brief History of FORTRANÂ 77 Page description: A Brief History of FORTRAN 77
	Controversy, Compromise, Modernization: From FORTRAN to Fortran 90 URL: http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/tcg/consweb/Fortran90/scnhist.html ODP description: By Jeanne Adams. Describes the evolution of Fortran, focusing on the Fortran 90 standard. Page title: Fortran 90 history
	IBM 704 Fortran Manual URL: http://www.fortran.com/ibm.html ODP description: Manual for the first version of Fortran (1956).
	Fortran: The First Successful High Level Programming Language URL: http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa072198.htm ODP description: Short essay by Mary Bellis, part of the "Inventors of the Modern Computer Series" series. Page title: FORTRAN - The First Successful High Level Programming Language Page description: The first high level programming language - fortran - invented by John Backus and IBM.
	Fortran 66 Standard URL: http://www.fh-jena.de/~kleine/history/languages/ansi-x3dot9-1966-Fortran66.pdf ODP description: Scanned copy of the ANSI document.
	Wikipedia: Fortran URL: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran ODP description: An encyclopedia description of Fortran history with many links to programming terms. Page title: Fortran - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
	Fortran Programming -- The Early Turning Point URL: http://inventors.about.com/od/fstartinventions/a/Fortran.htm ODP description: Chapter Excerpt from "Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts" by Steve Lohr, discussing the early history of Fortran. Page title: FORTRAN Programming -The Early Turning Point Page description: GoTo - a book by Steve Lohr on the history of software and software programmers - The history of FORTRAN programming begins in 1952 when the IBM defense calculator was ready for a road test.
	WATFOR's Silver Anniversary URL: http://csgwww.uwaterloo.ca/sdtp/watfor.html ODP description: Describes the history of WATFOR, a dialect of Fortran, from 1965 to 1990.
	Fortran Versions URL: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/fortran/ch1-1.html ODP description: A brief history of Fortran versions 1 to Fortran 95. Page title: A brief history of FORTRAN/Fortran
	Fortran II manual URL: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/704/C28-6000-2_704_FORTRANII.pdf ODP description: Manual for the 1958 version of Fortran created by IBM.
	History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II URL: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/ ODP description: Pilot project of the Computer History Museum's Software Collection Committee to develop expertise in the collection, preservation, and presentation of historic software. The specific goal of this project was to locate source code, design documents, and other materials concerning the original IBM 704 FORTRAN compiler. Page title: History of FORTRAN and FORTRAN II — Software Preservation Group
	Fortran I URL: http://www.paulgraham.com/history.html ODP description: Images from and discussion of the first Fortran manual, published in October 1956.