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Fortran
Title: Fortran
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 769 | Pages: 3.3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Fortran
FORTRAN (FORMula TRANslation - also Fortran) is a programming language originally developed in the 1950s and still in use today because before Fortran, people coded in assembly or machine language. Although originally a procedural language, recent versions of Fortran have included some object oriented features. It is mainly used for scientific computing and numerical analysis.
The first FORTRAN compiler which was running on an IBM 704 computer was developed in 1954-57 by a team lead by John W. …showed first 75 words of 769 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 769 total…capitalization has been abandoned. The published formal standards use "Fortran".
Standards
The two standards below reflect the current Fortran implementations.
• ANSI X3.198-1992 (R1997). Title: Programming Language "Fortran" Extended. Informally known as Fortran 90. This standard was published by ANSI and never became an International Standard (ISO).
• ISO/IEC 1539-1:1997. Title: Information technology - Programming languages - Fortran - Part 1: Base language. Informally known as Fortran 95. There are a further 2 parts to this standard. Part 1 has been formally adopted by ANSI.
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