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@Article{Meissner:1975:BSM,
  author =       "Loren P. Meissner and Ruth L. Hinkins",
  title =        "{B4Tran}: a structured mini-language approach to the
                 teaching of {Fortran}",
  journal =      j-SIGCSE,
  volume =       "7",
  number =       "1",
  pages =        "200--205",
  month =        feb,
  year =         "1975",
  CODEN =        "SIGSD3",
  DOI =          "https://doi.org/10.1145/953064.811159",
  ISSN =         "0097-8418 (print), 2331-3927 (electronic)",
  ISSN-L =       "0097-8418",
  bibdate =      "Sun Nov 18 08:53:50 MST 2012",
  bibsource =    "http://portal.acm.org/;
                 http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/sigcse1970.bib",
  note =         "Proceedings of the 5th SIGCSE symposium on Computer
                 science education.",
  abstract =     "Although senior computer scientists at major
                 universities deplore the continued widespread use of
                 Fortran in beginning computing courses, the fact
                 remains that half a million college students each year
                 are enrolled in courses that include Fortran
                 proficiency as a major objective. If these students are
                 to learn about program structure, ways must be found to
                 teach this concept in Fortran courses. We propose the
                 use of a structured mini-language, rather than a
                 preprocessor, at the beginning of such a course. The
                 B4Tran language has been designed as a subset of an
                 extended Fortran dialect. It introduces alternative
                 structures and iterative structures by using labelled
                 statements to delimit the ends of blocks, in a manner
                 analogous to the indexed DO block of Fortran.
                 Controlled alternatives to GO TO are also provided.
                 Some features of Fortran that cause difficulty for
                 beginning students are omitted. All variables are of a
                 single (``real'') type. Input and output are
                 format-free. B4Tran runs as an interpreter; thus it can
                 furnish improved feedback to the programmer during
                 execution.",
  acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
  fjournal =     "SIGCSE Bulletin (ACM Special Interest Group on
                 Computer Science Education)",
  journal-URL =  "http://portal.acm.org/browse_dl.cfm?idx=J688",
}

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