# Anecdotal Fortran... :-) **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [February 11, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704 "2021-02-11T17:58:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 5:58pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/1 "2021-02-11T17:58:03Z")
## You can share here your weird šŸ‘½, fun šŸ˜†, surprising šŸ˜² stories and anecdotes about Fortranā€¦ * * * **Do you know _9548 Fortran_ ?** I have just learned, by serendipity, in my [fr.wikipedia.org](https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/(9548)_Fortran): > (9548) Fortran is an asteroid in the main asteroid belt. It was discovered by the Spacewatch program on February 13, 1985 at Kitt Peak. It has an orbit characterized by a semi-major axis of 2.376 AU, an eccentricity of 0.24 and an inclination of 9.65Ā° with respect to the ecliptic. You will need a good telescope to observe it: diameter=5.4 km, albedo=0.058, magnitude 15.05 ! Please share with us your photography of that pixel (letā€™s name it _pale grey dotā€¦_)! Oh, yes, in my opinion itā€™s a Fortran 77 asteroid because it was discovered in 1985ā€¦ šŸ¤” More information: - [https://minorplanetcenter.net/db\_search/show\_object?object\_id=9548](https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=9548) - [https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=9548](https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=9548) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/94d73f6fa06e6d12a4b2e002afcd297897d2a57d.png) - [https://en.google-info.org/index.php/16440924/1/9548-fortran.html](https://en.google-info.org/index.php/16440924/1/9548-fortran.html) You can cite that asteroid as: (2003) (9548) Fortran. In: Dictionary of Minor Planet Names. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-29925-7 Is Fortran the only language to have an asteroid? šŸ¤© Could be a killer featureā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![Beliavsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Beliavsky](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Beliavsky)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 7:20pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/2 "2021-02-11T19:20:01Z")
The book [Microcosm](https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Microcosm/George-Gilder/9780671705923), by George Gilder, has the following interesting paragraph on page 86 of Chapter 6 about Andrew Grove, the former CEO of Intel. > [Andrew Groveā€™s] advantage over most of the other Fairchild personnel > was his knowledge of computers. While preparing his thesis at Berkeley, > he had learned how to program in the higher-level scientific language, > FORTRAN. Although he knew little about semiconductor capacitors > when he began his report, he quickly mastered the available materials > and translated the mathematics into a FORTRAN program. Thus he > was able readily to work out all the technical characteristics of the > device in, in crisp formulas and computations, within a few days, and > gained a reputation as an expert on the emerging technology of MOS, > designed to fulfill the Shockley dream of a field effect transistor. ---
**Author:** ![Beliavsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Beliavsky](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Beliavsky)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2021, 7:30pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/3 "2021-02-11T19:30:44Z")
One of the most popular American movies of 2017, [Hidden Figures](https://family.20thcenturystudios.com/movies/hidden-figures), had a Fortran angle, as was discussed in [comp.lang.fortran](https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.fortran/c/ZU-eikuB2Q8/m/OwIOtAIGDAAJ): > [ā€œHidden Figuresā€ Is a Subtle and Powerful Work of Counter-History | The New Yorker](http://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/hidden-figures-is-a-subtle-and-powerful-work-of-counter-history) > HIDDEN FIGURESā€ IS A SUBTLE AND POWERFUL WORK OF COUNTER-HISTORY > By Richard Brody > The New Yorker > December 23, 2016 > > The basic virtue of ā€œHidden Figuresā€ (which opens on December 25th), and itā€™s a formidable one, is to proclaim with a clarion vibrancy that, were it not for the devoted, unique, and indispensable efforts of three black women scientists, the United States might not have successfully sent people into space or to the moon and back. The movie is set mainly in 1961 and 1962, in Virginia, where a key nasa research center was (and is) based, and the movie is aptly and thoroughly derisive toward the discriminatory laws and practices that prevailed at the time. > > [ā€¦] > > Dorothyā€™s pursuit of a formal promotion to supervisor also takes place against the backdrop of the civil-rights movement. She learns that her entire department of human ā€œcomputersā€ will soon be replaced by an electronic computerā€”an enormous I.B.M. mainframe thatā€™s being installed. A gifted technician, Dorothy seeks out a book from the local library (a segregated library from which sheā€™s thrown out), in which sheā€™ll learn the programming language Fortran; she soon becomes nasaā€™s resident expert. On that trip to the library, in the company of her two sons on the cusp of adolescence, they witness a protest by civil-rights activists chanting ā€œsegregation must goā€ and see police officers, with police dogs, approaching the protesters. ---
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 11:51am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/4 "2021-02-13T11:51:45Z")
Itā€™s interesting to type ā€œFortranā€ where we never doā€¦ For example, in Discogs I have found a few bands, albums and song titles: [https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=fortran&type=all](https://www.discogs.com/search/?q=fortran&type=all) - I like the ambient instrumental ā€œFortran driftā€ (album ā€œSource transmissionā€, 2014) by Ascendant: [https://ambientascendant.bandcamp.com/album/source-transmission](https://ambientascendant.bandcamp.com/album/source-transmission) - In the 90ā€™s, there was an english band named Fortran 5: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran\_5](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran_5) - There is a german band named FORTRAN Factory, whose only member is named RenĆ© Fortran: [https://soundcloud.com/fortranfactory](https://soundcloud.com/fortranfactory) I let you discover the others in Discogs. Updated: another electronic music band named Fortran Unit: [https://beatportcharts.com/artist/fortran-unit/782385/](https://beatportcharts.com/artist/fortran-unit/782385/) Have you encountered Fortran in other arts? Literature (science fiction)? Cinema? Painting ? Theater? Opera? Dance? Architecture? Sculpture? Photography? ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 11:58am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/5 "2021-02-13T11:58:52Z")
[**Nam June Paik**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nam_June_Paik) (Korean: ė°±ė‚Øģ¤€; July 20, 1932 ā€“ January 29, 2006) was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the founder of video art. Here is an article about some of his works produced using FORTRAN: [Computers and Art | Smithsonian American Art Museum](https://americanart.si.edu/blog/computers-and-art) At some online shop I know they sell coffee mugs decorated with prints of an artwork he produced using Fortran. Unfortunately, I could not find the link anymore. ---
**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 12:11pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/6 "2021-02-13T12:11:30Z")
Speaking of Fortran Music you might be entertained by the book by Iannis Xenakis: > **[Formalized Music](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalized_Music)** > > Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition is a book by Greek composer, architect, and engineer Iannis Xenakis in which he explains his motivation, philosophy, and technique for composing music with stochastic mathematical functions. It was published in Paris in 1963 as Musiques formelles: nouveaux principes formels de composition musicale as a special double issue of La Revue musicale and republished in an expanded edition in 1981 in Paris by Stock Musique. It was later translated ... Chapter V titled _Free Stochastic Music by Computer_ contains the entire program listing in FORTRAN IV which was used to generate a work of stochastic incremental music entitled ST/10-1, 080262 which had been calculated on the IBM-7090. Below is a screenshot of the beginning of the program (only comments) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/4599db379eb339c1d826860220dc68f2f764fc64.png) Next February (08/02/2022) it will be 60 years since the piece of music was generated. It would be a cool project to modernize the program and synthesize the sound too, directly in Fortran (probably by interfacing to a sound library). You can even listen to a version recorded by the ā€œEnsemble Instrumental de Musique Contemporaine de Parisā€: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/def2cc0364238eda3460fe0f4200a4476b807a3d.jpeg "Iannis Xenakis - ST/10=1,080262") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XZjCy18qrA) ---
**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 12:21pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/7 "2021-02-13T12:21:47Z")
There is even a Fortran generated replica of the Mona Lisa: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/018e53b7c5b4565436ed86ffd161cb89dfc37dbc.jpeg) I couldnā€™t locate the source code, but it is described in this blog post: > **[The Genesis of Computer Art-FORTRAN (Backus) a Computer Art Medium Creates a...](https://ezinearticles.com/?The-Genesis-of-Computer-Art-FORTRAN-%28Backus%29-a-Computer-Art-Medium-Creates-a-Mosaic-Mona-Lisa&id=513898)** > > March 2007 - The recent passing of John Backus, the inventor of a computer programming called FORTRAN, awakened wonderful memories of days-gone-by university programming assignments. Developed at IBM in 1954, FORTRAN helped advance computer... ---
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 1:56pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/8 "2021-02-13T13:56:18Z")
> [@ivanpribec](#): > > Next February (08/02/2022) it will be 60 years since the piece of music was generated. It would be a cool project to modernize the program and synthesize the sound too, directly in Fortran (probably by interfacing to a sound library). Thanks for sharing! It could be done in Fortran. I have written a C teaching project to synthesize sounds and write them in a WAV format. It was inspired by: [https://gasstationwithoutpumps.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/making-wav-files-from-c-programs/](https://gasstationwithoutpumps.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/making-wav-files-from-c-programs/) A WAV comprises a header with metadata then the soundtracks in PCM ([Pulse-code modulation - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulse-code_modulation)). And you need a little endian procedure to write the 2 or 4 bytes data. The Xenakisā€™ book is here: [https://books.google.fr/books?id=y6lL3I0vmMwC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&redir\_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false](https://books.google.fr/books?id=y6lL3I0vmMwC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false) You can read some parts of the Fortran code around page 317(but I donā€™t know if it is the code of that music, we can preview only a limited number of pages). ---
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2021, 2:13pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/9 "2021-02-13T14:13:18Z")
August 16, 1964: Isaac Asimov published its article _Visit to the Worldā€™s Fair of 2014_ [https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html](https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/97/03/23/lifetimes/asi-v-fair.html) This is one of the last paragraphs: > The situation will have been made the more serious by the advances of automation. The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders. Schools will have to be oriented in this direction. Part of the General Electric exhibit today consists of a school of the future in which such present realities as closed-circuit TV and programmed tapes aid the teaching process. It is not only the techniques of teaching that will advance, however, but also the subject matter that will change. All the high-school students will be taught the fundamentals of computer technology will become proficient in binary arithmetic and will be trained to perfection in the use of the computer languages that will have developed out of those like the contemporary ā€œFortranā€ (from ā€œformula translationā€). ---
**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 10:45pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/10 "2021-02-14T22:45:48Z")
One of my favorite appearances of Fortran in popular culture is in the series Futurama. _Olde Fortran_ appears as a brand of malt liquor used drank by the alcohol-fueled robot Bender: ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/4ebb28eab7fc43899dd43b90639cce0695d33209.jpeg) I think it also appears several times on slot machines (Wheel of Fortran). ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/cc512f1c27c4da5ec1500daad1e74f84b65c2f3c.jpeg) Many of those with a background in HPC will know the [Slurm Workload Manager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slurm_Workload_Manager). The name is in fact also a reference to the beverage from Futurama: ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/e00acd7e368081b95ade6d5189c85de679f63ed8.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Beliavsky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ba8739/32.png) [@Beliavsky](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/Beliavsky)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/11 "2021-02-14T23:05:59Z")
[Real Programmers Donā€™t Use Pascal](https://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html) (1983) ---
**Author:** ![nshaffer](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/nshaffer/32/161_2.png) [@nshaffer](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/nshaffer)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 6:38am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/12 "2021-02-15T06:38:14Z")
Never fails to squeeze a few chuckles out of me. Thanks to some recent archaeology Iā€™ve been doing, this one: > Real Programmers like Arithmetic IF statements-- they make the code more interesting. hit a little closer to home than usualā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 7:49am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/13 "2021-02-15T07:49:34Z")
@ivanpribec , I think I have found the _Olde Fortran_ recipe: > **[Bender's Olde Fortran Malt Liquor 1.0](https://www.beginbrewing.com/2019/06/benders-olde-fortran-malt-liquor-10.html?m=0)** > > A recipe and experiment to produce a 14% ABV or higher malt liquor using Bootleg Biology Oslo yeast, to honor the Olde Fortran Malt Liquor consumed by Bender on Futurama. ---
**Author:** ![interkosmos](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/interkosmos/32/296_2.png) [@interkosmos](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/interkosmos)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2021, 9:10am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/14 "2021-02-15T09:10:55Z")
The Simpsons teached us what the greatest of the programming languages is: ![fortran](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/1b55f7bf9337fd0ff7b86b8d7a74a10086c8011f.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:05pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/15 "2021-02-16T13:05:39Z")
[MUSIC-N](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSIC-N) was a family of programs (in assembler and later in Fortran), which are the precursors of [Csound](https://csound.com/) (a sound and music computing system in C). Quoting from [A History of Programming and Music](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265164952_A_History_of_Programming_and_Music) by Ge Wang: > In 1968, MUSIC V broke the mold by being the first computer music programming system to be implemented in FORTRAN, a high-level general-purpose programming language (often considered the first). This meant MUSIC V could be ported to any computer system that ran FORTRAN, which greatly helped both its widespread use in the computer music community and its further development. While MUSIC V was the last and most mature of the Max Mathews / Bell Labs synthesis languages of the era, **it endures as possibly the single most influential computer music language.** Direct descendants include MUSIC 360 (for the IBM 360) and MUSIC 11 (for the PDP-11) by Barry Vercoe and colleagues at MIT, and later cmusic by F. Richard Moore. These and other systems added much syntactic and logical flexibility, but at heart remained true to the principles of MUSIC-N languages: connection of unit generators, and the separate treatment of sound synthesis (orchestra) and musical organization (score). Less obviously, MUSIC V also provided the model for many later computer music programming languages and environments. A good description can be found in: > [Lazzarini, V., Yi, S., Heintz, J., Brandtsegg, Ƙ., & McCurdy, I. (2016). Music Programming Systems. In _Csound_ (pp. 3-16). Springer, Cham.](https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-45370-5_1) Apparently the full MUSIC V program was around 3000 punch cards. I canā€™t imagine having to port it to Modern Fortranā€¦ šŸ¤Ŗ ---
**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:15pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/16 "2021-02-16T13:15:11Z")
If someone is interested in some of the music pieces by Max Mathews I found some recordings [here](http://www.csounds.com/mathews/max_music.html). He wrote the accompaniments for the first synthesized vocal song, played in 1961 on an IBM 7094: [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/2b6103e110f4d506dc071981f8bf3fa4a20bd848.jpeg "Daisy Bell - IBM 7094 (1961)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIwhx3NQSLg) [![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/11cde5d803d5e541380dc2e33543c2e9bb5d6c51.jpeg "First computer to sing - Daisy Bell") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41U78QP8nBk) ---
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 1:22pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/17 "2021-02-16T13:22:10Z")
Nice Kraftwerk & Daft Punk ancestor! Vocal synthesis seemed to be already well advanced in those daysā€¦ Alan Turingā€™s team also experienced computer sounds and music, but it was not in Fortran because it was in 1951 (moreover Turing bite the apple in 1954): > **[Listening to the music of Turing's computer](https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37507707)** > > Some 65 years after it was made, earliest known recording of music produced by a computer has finally been restored. But Alan seemed more interested by sound as a method for the computer to communicate with humans, rather than by music. ---
**Author:** ![themos](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/themos/32/521_2.png) [@themos](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/themos)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 2:01pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/18 "2021-02-16T14:01:36Z")
The Xenakis Fortran code, in case anyone is feeling tempted ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/dff16b8b01218618a60bd07abab2d4987bbd2c47.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/501a140e8dcafa14e56a062b48f973dccabea2c1.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/b389ca3f0a7f6db17399437cb993a04bde1aebce.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/a5442a953131ee2d6205229c95a7ddf6a2e10224.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/1f1289b35d9c85eb3c2cd6755f119794c95d9445.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/00e3ff4f95a522bcd1beb4c34740890d624c4edd.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/e5ffdf77486af64daf02b233a3e469a0d6b1364c.png) ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/fortran_lang/original/1X/7f1552738cf853ebd451f4f9325055e96cca3107.png) ---
**Author:** ![ivanpribec](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/ivanpribec/32/3290_2.png) [@ivanpribec](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/ivanpribec)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 2:06pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/19 "2021-02-16T14:06:36Z")
Interesting article! The Daisy Bell song above was also **not** Fortran. The Fortran version of MUSIC-V only came 7 years later. But still itā€™s impressive to learn about these pioneers. ---
**Author:** ![vmagnin](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/vmagnin/32/28_2.png) [@vmagnin](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/vmagnin)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2021, 2:17pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704/20 "2021-02-16T14:17:03Z")
I have found the Xenakis text here: [https://archive.org/stream/Iannis\_Xenakis/Xenakis\_Iannis\_Formalized\_Music\_Thought\_and\_Mathematics\_in\_Composition\_djvu.txt](https://archive.org/stream/Iannis_Xenakis/Xenakis_Iannis_Formalized_Music_Thought_and_Mathematics_in_Composition_djvu.txt) Search the ā€œPROGRAM FREE STOCHASTIC MUSIC (FORTRAN IV)ā€ string to find the program. OCR seems not too bad (I mean it could be worseā€¦), but there are probably many many corrections to make! [Next page](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/anecdotal-fortran/704.md?page=2)