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Backus, J., "The history of Fortran I, II, and III", SIGPLAN, 13, 8, pp. 165-198, August 1978. Google
167 ;;Quote: FORTRAN was designed for efficiency instead of good language design; Backus believes this decision was correct
168 ;;Quote: FORTRAN was designed as needed; the real problem was a compiler that produced efficient programs
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