Fortran (previously FORTRAN) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas ...
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Dialects:
- Fortran 2008 ,
- Fortran 2003 ,
- FORTRAN 95 ,
- FORTRAN 90 ,
- FORTRAN 77 ,
- FORTRAN 66 ,
- FORTRAN IV ,
- FORTRAN III ,
- FORTRAN II
Developers:
Also known as:
- The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System,
- FORTRAN
