A Brief History Of Fortran

• Dates back to 1954
• Fortran II, IV, 66 (released in 1972)
• Fortran 77 (released in 1980)
• Fortran 90 (released in 1991)
• HPF (High Performance Fortran) (not an official standard)
• Fortran 95 (released in December 1997) - largely a "bug-fix" release
• Fortran 2000 (scheduled for 2002)