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Fortran Photo Archive Jerry Wagener Jerry@ Wagener.com At the March 28-30, 2003, Fortran Reunion in Las Vegas, NV, the Saturday morning session was devoted mainly to a summary of Fortran 2K (John Reid, et al.), a session of "guess the geezer" in old photos (Jerry Wagener), and a "who said this?" session of old quotes (Jeanne Martin, see below). The "guess the geezer" session used eight photos I had taken during the development of Fortran 90. For each of the eight photos there was the statement that the "You might be a Fortran old geezer if ..." you could identify certain people and/or activities in the photo. That original photo quiz, and the answers, will be available on the Fortran Photo Archive website, http://www.j3-fortran.org/photos/_. The target date for having this website active is early August 2003. Marry Greenfield initiated the Saturday morning session with some cherished memories of his long tenure in Fortran standards work, and ended his remarks with an eloquent plea that the history of the Fortran standards work be collected, maintained, and archived for public access. By the end of the reunion Jeanne Martin had committed to gathering a complete set of (X3)J3 and WG5 papers, since the start of those organizations. A number of people took pictures at the reunion, and of course there are scattered photos from meetings past. Though informal and sporadic, such photos seem also to capture an aspect of Fortran standards history, and Jerry agreed to assemble and maintain a photo archive; this archive will be available on the J3 website. The photo archive is organized into a set of photo "galleries", and the initial version will contain a few galleries: the guess-the-geezer quiz, submissions from people at the reunion, and photos from old meetings. More galleries will be added from time to time, and anyone may submit Fortran standards related photos for the archive. Each photo will have a caption, including the names of the individuals appearing in the photo and/or a short story pertaining to the photo, as appropriate. Such a caption should be included with each photo submitted. Fortran Trivia Questions Jeanne T. Martin jeannetm@pacbell.net [The original questions have been edited to make them suitable for a wider readership and for reasons of space. M.M.] Category: Quotes. These appear in chronological order. 1) Who was 'T' in the following quote from a May 1973 article in "Datamation"? Like many people, I was tremendously impressed with professor Dijkstra's Turing lecture at the ACM meeting in Boston. I tend to agree with him that the right language remains to be developed. When that happy day arrives, I will endeavor to write the first textbook about it! But in the meantime .... FORTRAN it is, for the technical and engineering side of the computing world. For extra points, what was the title of this article? 2) The following is from a manuscript for "Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective" (June 1975). An excerpt was reprinted in SIGPLAN Notices (Feb. 1982). Who was the author? FORTRAN, "the infantile disorder", by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today; it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use. ACM Fortran Forum, August 2003, 22, 2
ACM SIGPLAN Fortran Forum – Association for Computing Machinery
Published: Aug 1, 2003
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