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The primary aim of this chapter is to provide a short history of program language development and provide some idea as to the concepts that have had an impact on Fortran 90. It concentrates on some but not all of the major milestones of the last 40 years, in rough chronological order. The secondary aim is to show the breadth of languages available. The chapter concludes with coverage of a small number of more specialised languages.
‘We have to go to another language in order to think clearly about the problem.’
Samuel R. Delany, Babel-17
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Chivers, I.D., Sleightholme, J. (1995). Introduction to Programming Languages. In: Introducing Fortran 90. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3031-4_6
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