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Fortran
<language> (Formula Translation) The first and, for a long time, the most widely used programming language for numerical and scientific applications. The original versions lacked recursive procedures and block structure and had a line-oriented syntax in which certain columns had special significance.
There have been a great many versions.
The name is often written "FORTRAN", harking back to the days before computers were taught about lower case, but ANSI decreed, in about 1985 via the ANSI FORTRAN Technical Committee TC, that it should be "Fortran".
See also: Fortrash.
[Was Fortran I the first version?]
(2000-07-07)
<language> (Formula Translation) The first and, for a long time, the most widely used programming language for numerical and scientific applications. The original versions lacked recursive procedures and block structure and had a line-oriented syntax in which certain columns had special significance.
There have been a great many versions.
The name is often written "FORTRAN", harking back to the days before computers were taught about lower case, but ANSI decreed, in about 1985 via the ANSI FORTRAN Technical Committee TC, that it should be "Fortran".
See also: Fortrash.
[Was Fortran I the first version?]
(2000-07-07)
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FORTRAN
Formula Translator (Programming Language)(See HLL)
Formula Translator (Programming Language)(See HLL)
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FORTRAN
FORmula TRANsactor
FORmula TRANsactor
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FORTRAN
Formula Translator (Programming Language)(See HLL)
Formula Translator (Programming Language)(See HLL)
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FORTRAN
Acronym for formula translator, FORTRAN is the oldest high-level programming language. Designed by John Backus for IBM in the late 1950s, it is still popular today, particularly for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations.
The two most common versions of FORTRAN are FORTRAN IV and FORTRAN 77. FORTRAN IV was approved as a USASI standard in 1966. FORTRAN 77 is a version of FORTRAN that was approved by ANSI in 1978 (they had expected to approve it in 1977, hence the name). FORTRAN 77 includes a number of features not available in older versions of FORTRAN. A new ISO and ANSI standard for FORTRAN, called FORTRAN-90, was developed in the early 90s.
Acronym for formula translator, FORTRAN is the oldest high-level programming language. Designed by John Backus for IBM in the late 1950s, it is still popular today, particularly for scientific applications that require extensive mathematical computations.
The two most common versions of FORTRAN are FORTRAN IV and FORTRAN 77. FORTRAN IV was approved as a USASI standard in 1966. FORTRAN 77 is a version of FORTRAN that was approved by ANSI in 1978 (they had expected to approve it in 1977, hence the name). FORTRAN 77 includes a number of features not available in older versions of FORTRAN. A new ISO and ANSI standard for FORTRAN, called FORTRAN-90, was developed in the early 90s.
FORTRAN Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
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FORTRAN
Noun
1. a high-level programing language for mathematical and scientific purposes; stands for formula translation
(hypernym) algebraic language
Noun
1. a high-level programing language for mathematical and scientific purposes; stands for formula translation
(hypernym) algebraic language
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fortran
fortran
n : formula translation; high-level programing language for mathematical and scientific purposes [syn: fortran]
similar words(9)
vienna fortran
fortran automatic symbol translator
refined fortran
fortran-linda
fortran iv
fortran ii
fortran i
rational fortran
fortran 77
fortran
n : formula translation; high-level programing language for mathematical and scientific purposes [syn: fortran]
similar words(9)
vienna fortran
fortran automatic symbol translator
refined fortran
fortran-linda
fortran iv
fortran ii
fortran i
rational fortran
fortran 77
FORTRAN Definition from Government Dictionaries & Glossaries
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FORTRAN
Formula Translation
Formula Translation
FORTRAN Definition from Science & Technology Dictionaries & Glossaries
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FORTRAN
FORmula TRANslation (programing language)
FORmula TRANslation (programing language)
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FORTRAN
FORMula TRANslation
FORMula TRANslation
FORTRAN Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
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Fortran
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 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 such as climate modeling, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational physics, financial computing, and computational chemistry.
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