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Guy Steele's keynote talk at Dan Friedman's 60th-birthday academic festival, "Dan Friedman--Cool Ideas", gives lots of the background: https://youtu.be/IHP7P_HlcBk?t=2198 . Apparently the format was originally a parody or adaptation of that of an IBM Fortran instruction manual based on Skinnerian programmed-instruction ideas.

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leocOP3y ago

You can see the FORTRAN texts on Bitsavers: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/1130/lang/

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leocOP3y ago

You can see the FORTRAN texts on Bitsavers: https://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/1130/lang/

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