FORTRAN

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F0272500 (fôr′trăn′)n. One of the first high-level programming languages, designed to solve problems that can be expressed algebraically and used mainly in mathematics, science, and engineering.

[for(mula) + tran(slation).]

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(ˈfɔːtræn) or

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n (Computer Science) a high-level computer programming language for mathematical and scientific purposes, designed to facilitate and speed up the solving of complex problems[C20: from for(mula) tran(slation)]

FORTRAN

(ˈfɔr træn)

n. a high-level programming language used mainly for solving problems in science and engineering. [1956; for(mula)tran(slator)]

Fortran

A high-level programming language used mainly by scientists and mathematicians.

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Noun

FORTRAN - a high-level programing language for mathematical and scientific purposes; stands for formula translationalgebraic language - an algorithmic language having statements that resemble algebraic expressions

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Fortran

a programming language; more precisely, a family of such languages that evolved from the original version developed in 1957 in the USA under the supervision of J. W. Backus. The name derives from “formula translation,” referring to the translation of programs written in FORTRAN into machine language. FORTRAN contains statements for assignment, conditions, cyclic operation, subroutines, storage allocation, and real and complex variables, which may have logical, integer, real, or complex values; it also includes highly developed statements for input-output. FORTRAN is the most widely used programming language for scientific and engineering calculations. The language’s specifications are fixed in several national and international standards.

REFERENCES

Pervin, Iu. A. Osnovy FORTRANa, Moscow, 1972.
Germain, C. Programmirovanie na IBM/360, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1973. (Translated from English.)
Fortran (programming textbook). Kiev, 1976.
American Standard FORTRAN: Approved March 7, 1966. New York, 1966.

FORTRAN

[′fȯr‚tran] (computer science) A family of procedure-oriented languages used mostly for scientific or algebraic applications; derived from formula translation.

Fortran

(language)(Formula Translation) The first and, for a longtime, the most widely used programming language for numericaland scientific applications. The original versions lackedrecursive procedures and block structure and had aline-oriented syntax in which certain columns had specialsignificance.

There have been a great many versions.

The name is often written "FORTRAN", harking back to the daysbefore computers were taught about lower case, but ANSIdecreed, in about 1985 via the ANSI FORTRAN TechnicalCommittee TC, that it should be "Fortran".

See also: Fortrash.

FORTRAN

(FORmula TRANslator) The first high-level programming language and compiler, developed in 1954 by IBM. It was originally designed to express mathematical formulas, and although it has been used for business applications, it is primarily used for scientific, engineering and mathematical problems. FORTRAN IV is an ANSI standard, but FORTRAN V has various proprietary versions. The following FORTRAN example converts Fahrenheit to Celsius:

 write(6,*) 'Enter Fahrenheit ' read(5,*) XFAHR XCENT = (XFAHR - 32) * 5 / 9 write(6,*) 'Celsius is ', XCENT stop end

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noun a high-level programing language for mathematical and scientific purposes

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