[Ads-l] Antedating of "Fortran"

[Shapiro, Fred]

I should explain that the citation below is the correct one; the previous one I posted had an error in it.



Fred Shapiro






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Subject: Antedating of "Fortran"


Fortran (OED 1956)



1954 (title of document)  Specifications for the IBM mathematical FORmula TRANslating system, FORTRAN (International Business Machines Corp.)



Fred Shapiro

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