The Fortran I compiler was the first demonstration that it is possible to automatically generate good machine code from high-level languages. It has thus been enormously influential. This article presents a brief description of the techniques used In the Fortran I compiler for the parsing of expressions, loop optimization, and register allocation.
Citation:
David Padua, "The Fortran I Compiler," Computing in Science and Engineering, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 70-75, Jan./Feb. 2000, doi:10.1109/5992.814661