This is the genealogy of the programming language Fortran:

Fortran was born in year 1954.
It became Fortran I in year 1956.
It became Fortran II in year 1957.
It became Fortran III in year 1958.
It became Fortran IV in year 1962.
Then it begat PL/I in year 1964.
It became Fortran 66 in year 1966.
It became Fortran 77 in year 1978.
It became Fortran 90 in year 1991.
It became Fortran 95 in year 1995, and has not changed much since that time.

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