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Fortran (a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions.
Statements of initial released Fortran for IBM 704
- Dimension and Equivanlience.
- Assignment; Three-way arithmetic.
- If statements for checking exceptions, and If statements for manipulating.
- GOTO, Do loops.
- Formatted and Unformatted I/O.
- Other I/O
- Pause, Stop and Continue statements
- Frequency statement
In 1958, IBM released Fortran II, the main enhancement is supporting procedural programming by allowing user-written subroutines and functions, introducing six new statements: subroutine, funtion, end, call, return and common.