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Hartran System
Harwell 1961: Write a Fortran Compiler for Atlas: HARTRAN
  • Write it in Fortran and also a Binary and Arbitrarily Symbolic (BAS) Loader
  • Extended Fortran II Compiler, developed on Risley's 7090, producing BAS code for Atlas
  • Run HARTRAN through HARTRAN Compiler on the 7090 at Risley generates BAS code for Atlas
  • Run HARTRAN through the BAS version on Atlas and you have a new version of the compiler code on Atlas
  • Ian Pyle, Barbara Stokoe, Bart Fossey, Paul Bryant, Brian Chapman
Fortran Libraries
  • SHARE: IBM basic algorithms
  • QCPE: Quantum Chemistry Program Exchange
  • HSL: Harwell Subroutine Library later to become basis of NAG Library
  • NP: Nuclear Physics organised by Oxford
  • NMR: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance organised by UEA
  • WYSEA: Economic Modelling, Imperial
  • Graphics: SCFOR, SPROGS, SMOG by ACL