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The piece documents that at least two manufacturers (Data General and Univac) marketed their extended Fortran IV compilers as "Fortran V" -- but it doesn't say
by rst 2y ago
The piece documents that at least two manufacturers (Data General and Univac) marketed their extended Fortran IV compilers as "Fortran V" -- but it doesn't say whether they actually extended Fortran IV the same way. "Fortran V" wasn't the name of any official standard; the ANSI standard which more or less documented Fortran IV was officially Fortran 66, and ANSI's next version was Fortran 77.
- mek6800d2 2y agoData General's compiler was "Fortran 5", not V. Univac and Control Data Corporation had their own Fortran Vs, but there was no relation between the two.
- wrs 2y agoI learned Fortran in 1977 using WATFIV, which I just now realized was not a nonexistent Fortran 5, but the University of WATerloo Fortran IV compiler.