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Revision as of 16:52, 6 August 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 IV
- FORTRAN 66
- FORTRAN 77
- FORTRAN 90
- FORTRAN 95
Hello World
This is a simple FORTRAN program.
C23456789012345678901234567890
program hello
print *, 'Hello!'
end
Folk lore
Fortran is popular from the old rant "Real Programmers Don't Use Pascal".
