Fortran

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.

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
Appeared in	1957; 67 years ago (1957)
Designed bi	John Backus
Developer	John Backus an IBM
Stable release	Fortran 2008 (ISO/IEC 1539-1:2010) (2010; 14 years ago (2010))
Typin discipline	strang, static, manifest
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
Influenced bi	Speedcodin
Influenced	ALGOL 58, BASIC, C, Chapel,[1] CMS-2, Julia, PL/I, PACT I, MUMPS an Ratfor
Usual filename extensions	.f, .for, .f90, .f95, .f03, .f08, .f15

References

1. "Chapel spec (Acknowledgements)" (PDF). Cray Inc. 1 October 2015. Archived frae the original (PDF) on 5 Februar 2016. Retrieved 14 Januar 2016.
2. "FORTRAN". American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5 ed.). The Free Dictionary. 2011. Retrieved 8 Februar 2016.
3. Lucy Joan Slater, More Fortran programs for economists, Cambridge University Press, 1972.