<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Thu, 9 May 2024 22:40:28 +0200, Paul Ruizendaal <<a href="mailto:pnr@planet.nl">pnr@planet.nl</a>> wrote:</div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;">.... Digging into this more led me to a 1970 report "Programming Languages and their Compilers, Preliminary Notes” by John Cocke and J.T. Schwartz:</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><a href="https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/Bright-FORTRANComesToWestinghouseBettis-1971.pdf" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;">https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/Bright-FORTRANComesToWestinghouseBettis-1971.pdf</a><br></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Actually, the link is here:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><a href="https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/CockeSchwartz_ProgLangCompilers.pdf">https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/CockeSchwartz_ProgLangCompilers.pdf</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And more about Jack Schwartz is here:</div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div><a href="https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/SETL/index.html#Precursors">https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/SETL/index.html#Precursors</a><br></div></blockquote><br><div><br></div><div>Paul</div></body></html>