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New Fortran webpage
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Add a History page? #101

Open Beliavsky opened 3 years ago

Beliavsky commented 3 years ago

Fortran-lang.org promotes Fortran as a modern language, which it is. But it's also an old language with a rich history that some site visitors may be interested in. At the top, along with the sections

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should there be a link to a History page with relevant information? There is a history from IBM. Other links are at the Fortran Wiki history page, but I would excise the gloomy introduction!

arjenmarkus commented 3 years ago

I definitely like the idea. It might the place to show the dichotomy between "ancient" FORTRAN and modern Fortran.

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Fortran-lang.org promotes Fortran as a modern language, which it is. But it's also an old language with a rich history that some site visitors may be interested in. At the top, along with the sections

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should there be a link to a History page with relevant information?

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certik commented 3 years ago

Yes I like the idea. We should have a History section.

awvwgk commented 3 years ago

I like the idea as well. Having a good organized knowledge base over the history of Fortran would be a useful addition. Creating such a new section with meaningful content can be more difficult and requires expertise and input from long practitioners and pioneers of Fortran.

Input and patches are very welcome on this. I'm happy to help where ever I can with this, but I'm out for doing the first steps on this (I started programming Fortran in 2017, not the best qualifications for writing a history section).

vmagnin commented 3 years ago

My feeling is that a Fortran history page in Fortran-lang.org should be designed with clear and assumed goals. There is already a lot of pages with a Fortran history (for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran). Our history should not be another old dusty museum but concentrate on events and information that could be useful for Fortran beginners to understand the present state of Fortran:

And we have already many posts in the Discourse that could bring materials to build such a story.

milancurcic commented 3 years ago

I agree, this would be a good addition to the website. I think a mini-book would be a good format.

vmagnin commented 3 years ago

This Curlie directory (the historical DMOZ reborn) list a few pages with stuff related to Fortran history: https://www.curlie.org/en/Computers/Programming/Languages/Fortran/History

And especially this page: http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/

Beliavsky commented 3 years ago

Related discussion at Fortran Discourse: History of Fortran (Fortran II source code)

vmagnin commented 3 years ago

Another discussion: https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/john-backus-1924-2007-fortrans-father/873 And there could be historical things in https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704 and https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/boz-constants-but-why-z/981