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.
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Fortran 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; 68 years ago (1957) |
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| Designed bi | John Backus |
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| Developer | John Backus an IBM |
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| Stable release | Fortran 2008 (ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010) (2010; 15 years ago (2010)) |
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| Typin discipline | strang, static, manifest |
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| 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 |
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| Influenced bi | Speedcodin |
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| Influenced | ALGOL 58, BASIC, C, Chapel,[1] CMS-2, Julia, PL/I, PACT I, MUMPS an Ratfor |
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| Usual filename extensions | .f, .for, .f90, .f95, .f03, .f08, .f15 |
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