VDict - Definition of FORTRAN

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Fortran

language (Formula Translation) The first and, for a long

time, the most widely used programming language for numerical

and scientific applications. The original versions lacked

recursive procedures and block structure and had a

line-oriented syntax in which certain columns had special

significance.

There have been a great many versions.

The name is often written "FORTRAN", harking back to the days

before computers were taught about lower case, but ANSI

decreed, in about 1985 via the ANSI FORTRAN Technical

Committee TC, that it should be "Fortran".

See also: Fortrash.

[Was Fortran I the first version?]

(2000-07-07)

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