[TUHS] RIP John Backus

Paul McJones paul at mcjones.org
Sun Mar 18 06:01:30 AEST 2018


On 3/17/2018 12:22 PM, Steve Simon <steve at quintile.net> wrote:

> on the subject of fortran’s language, i remember hearing tell of a French version. anyone ever meet any?

Yes: here is the French version of the original Fortran manual, with 
keywords in French (via 
http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/):

Anonymous. FORTRAN Programmation Automatique de L'Ordinateur IBM 704 : 
Manuel du Programmeur. IBM France, Institut de Calcul Scientifique, 
Paris. No date, 51 pages. Given to Paul McJones by John Backus.
http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Fortran/102663111.05.01.acc.pdf
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