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FORTRAN

further reading: books on FORTRAN

general

nature: procedural language

history: The second oldest programming language still in use, intended for numerical and scientific work.

structure

format: columns

lexical elements

source code character set: FORTRAN has a 48 character source code character set: 26 upper case alphabetic characters ( A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z ), the 10 decimal digits ( 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ), and 12 special characters ( blank + - * / . , " = $ ( ) ). Some kind of line break or record separator may be used with some input devices.

porting

www.digital.com/info/porting_assistant “The Digital Porting Assistant (available for Digital UNIX 3.2, and shipped as part of the developer toolkit on Digital UNIX 4.0) is a graphical environment which aids in the porting process. In addition to doing lint-like checking of C and Fortran code, it also contains extensive on-line help regarding developing software on Digital UNIX.”^w55

geek humor

“Real FORTRAN programmers can program FORTRAN in any language.” —Allen Brown

“Since this is an exercise divorced from reality, the usual vehicle was FORTRAN.” —Ken Thompson, Turing Award Lecture

“C is the Fortran of the 90s.”
“Wrong. Fortran is the C of the 70s.” —Norman Diamond

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