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Backus, J., Beeber, R.J., Best, S., Goldberg, R., Haibt, L.M., Herrick, J.L., Nelson, Sayre, D., Sheridan, P.B., Stern, H., Ziller, I., Hughes, R.A., Nutt, R., "The FORTRAN automatic coding system", AFIPS Conference Proceedings, WJCC, II, pp. 188-197, 1957. Google
196 ;;Quote: FORTRAN designed to express any numerical procedure
197 ;;Quote: using FORTRAN reduces the amount of thinking, bookkeeping, writing, and time
197 ;;Quote: it is much easier to teach FORTRAN than machine language
197 ;;Quote: a FORTRAN compiler can detect many syntactic errors, and FORTRAN programs can have far fewer errors than assembly programs
197 ;;Quote: FORTRAN was designed for both local and global efficiency of instructions and their context
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