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* programming and debugging costs were below computer running costs.
* it was supported by IBM.
* applications at the time were scientific.<ref name="cpl_3rd-ch2-16"
| last = Wilson
| first = Leslie B.
| title = Comparative Programming Languages, Third Edition
| publisher = Addison-Wesley
| year = 2001
| page = 16
| isbn = 0-201-71012-9
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However, non IBM vendors also wrote Fortran compilers, but with a syntax that would likely fail IBM's compiler.<ref name="cpl_3rd-ch2-16"/> The [[American National Standards Institute]] (ANSI) developed the first Fortran standard in 1966. In 1978, Fortran 77 became the standard until 1991. Fortran 90 supports:
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