Programming Languages Exhibit: FORTRAN

About FORTRAN:

NAME:

FORTRAN / Fortran - FORmula TRANslation

CREATOR:

John Backus - 1954

PARADIGM:

Imperative Programming

VERSION

First Release : FORTRAN
Latest Release : Fortran 2008

DESCRIPTION:

It was the first high level language and is still being used today for its built in mathematical functions and powerful precision in scientific computing. FORTRAN was created by JOHN BACKUS for IBM in 1954.

In this blog I will show you how to code in FORTRAN 95.

Insights on Fortran:

Foreign:

"FORTRAN, the infantile disorder, by now nearly 20 years old, is hopelessly inadequate for whatever computer application you have in mind today: it is now too clumsy, too risky, and too expensive to use."

Edsger W. Dijkstra , circa 1970

"In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included."

Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930-2002)

"FORTRAN was the language of choice for the same reason that three-legged races are popular."

Ken Thompson, "Reflections on Trusting Trust"

Personal:

"For me FORTRAN 95 is an easy to understand programming language. The syntax is very easy to understand and the environment is almost C-Like with a touch of LOGO and JAVA".

-Naru, Author