Fortran
Fortran (umwhile FORTRAN, derived frae "Formula Translation"[2][3]) is a general-purpose, imperative programmin leid that is especially suitit tae numeric computation an scientific computin.
 The Fortran Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 (15 October 1956), the first Programmer's Reference Manual for Fortran | |
| Paradigm(s) | multi-paradigm: structurt, imperative (procedural, object-orientit), generic |
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| Appeared in | 1957 |
| Designed bi | John Backus |
| Developer | John Backus an IBM |
| Stable release | Fortran 2008 (ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010) (2010) |
| Typin discipline | strang, static, manifest |
| Major implementations | Absoft, Cray, GFortran, G95, IBM XL Fortran, Intel, Hitachi, Lahey/Fujitsu, Numerical Algorithms Group, Open Watcom, PathScale, PGI, Silverfrost, Oracle Solaris Studio, Visual Fortran, ithers |
| Influenced bi | Speedcodin |
| Influenced | ALGOL 58, BASIC, C, Chapel,[1] CMS-2, Julia, PL/I, PACT I, MUMPS an Ratfor |
| Usual filename extensions | .f, .for, .f90, .f95, .f03, .f08, .f15 |
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References
eedit- ↑ "Chapel spec (Acknowledgements)" (PDF). Cray Inc. 1 October 2015. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 5 Februar 2016. Retrieved 14 Januar 2016.
- ↑ "FORTRAN". American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5 ed.). The Free Dictionary. 2011. Retrieved 8 Februar 2016.
- ↑ Lucy Joan Slater, More Fortran programs for economists, Cambridge University Press, 1972.