What (who) is Fortran - definition

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Fortran 77

A popular version of Fortran with Block IF, PARAMETER and SAVE statements added, but still no WHILE. It has fixed-length character strings, format-free I/O, and arrays with lower bounds. [ANSI X3.9-1978]. GNU version (ftp://gnu.org/pub/gnu/g77). Amiga version (ftp://ftp.cso.uiuc.edu/amiga/fish/ff470/BCF). (1994-12-16)

Fortran 66

Fortran IV standardised. ASA X3.9-1966.

Fortran

['f?:tran]

¦ noun a high-level computer programming language used especially for scientific calculations.

Origin

1950s: contr. of formula translation.

Wikipedia

Fortran

Fortran (; formerly FORTRAN) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

Fortran was originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, and subsequently came to dominate scientific computing. It has been in use for over six decades in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, geophysics, computational physics, crystallography and computational chemistry. It is a popular language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.

Fortran's design was the basis for many other programming languages, especially BASIC and ALGOL. But Fortran has itself evolved through numerous versions and dialects, adding extensions while largely retaining compatibility with preceding versions. Successive versions have added support for structured programming and processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and generic programming (Fortran 90), High Performance Fortran (Fortran 95), object-oriented programming (Fortran 2003), concurrent programming (Fortran 2008), and native parallel computing capabilities (Coarray Fortran 2008/2018).

Since August 2021, Fortran has ranked among the top fifteen languages in the TIOBE index, a measure of the popularity of programming languages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortran

Pronunciation examples for Fortran

1. Remember Fortran?

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2. We do still use Fortran.

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3. in this case in the language Fortran,

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4. for inventing FORTRAN, worked here also.

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5. Fortran to IBM scientists. Fortran had just been invented and she was

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Examples of use of Fortran

1. Employers are continuing to look for IT staff with knowledge of the Microsoft Office programme, while those with skills in Fortran and Windows are finding fewer opportunities.

2. John Backus, the developer of Fortran, a programming language that changed how people interacted with computers, died in Ashland, Ore., at age 82.