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Revision as of 17:25, 8 April 2010

Fortran, better known as a "FORmula TRANslator". It's primary use was in Scientific and Engineering disciplines.

Dialects

There have been several popular versions of Fortran, namely:

  • FORTRAN 66
  • FORTRAN 77
  • FORTRAN 90
  • FORTRAN 95

Hello World

This is a simple FORTRAN program.

      program hello 
      print *, 'Hello!' 
      end

Folk lore

Fortran is popular from the old rant "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal".

Popular Compilers