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The primary aim of this chapter is to provide a short history of program language development and give some idea as to the concepts that have had an impact on Fortran. It concentrates on some but not all of the major milestones of the last 40 years, in roughly 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., Sleightholme, J. (2018). Introduction to Programming Languages. In: Introduction to Programming with Fortran. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75502-1_3
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