Ron Bell: Fortran at AWE AW(R)E scientific programming l 1952 Alick Glennie develops first precursor to FORTRAN l Lecture at Cambridge University l Machine code on early machines l Assembly language on IBM 704/709/7090 – moving to early FORTRAN l 1962 AWRE standardised on FORTRAN for Stretch l Stretch delivered with no FORTRAN compiler l AWRE's Alick Glennie and IBM (UK) wrote S1 compiler l Alick Glennie wrote S2 compiler – 20 times faster l Dynamic memory allocation at run-time was key feature AWE is still standardised on FORTRAN in 2007 -Very happy with that position -Pleased we didn't follow some US Labs to C++ and C (Note: Only for Design Physics.
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