1900	 Clarification of Fortran Standards-Initial Progress	 In after four years of effort FORTRAN became the first programming language standardized in the United States. Since that initial achievement study and application of the standard specifications have revealed the need for maintenance of the standards. As the result of work initiated in an initial set of clarifying interpretations has been prepared. The nature of the maintenance corrections to the standard specifications and completed interpretations are reported. USA Standard FORTRAN Basic FORTRAN programming language standardization language standard specification language standard maintenance language standard clarification language standard interpretation standardization committee
