On Thu, 9 May 2024 22:40:28 +0200, Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl> wrote:

.... Digging into this more led me to a 1970 report "Programming Languages and their Compilers, Preliminary Notes” by John Cocke and J.T. Schwartz:
https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/paper/Bright-FORTRANComesToWestinghouseBettis-1971.pdf

Actually, the link is here:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/FORTRAN/CockeSchwartz_ProgLangCompilers.pdf

And more about Jack Schwartz is here:

https://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/SETL/index.html#Precursors


Paul