Fortran

See also: fortran and FORTRAN

English

Alternative forms

FORTRAN

Etymology

A variant capitalization of FORTRAN, a Blend of formula +‎ translator or formula +‎ translation, formally adopted with Fortran 90 in 1991.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɔːˌtran/
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Proper noun

Fortran

(computer languages) A high-level programming language first developed in the 1950s for scientific, engineering, and numerical computation.
- 1997, Jeanne C. Adams; Walter S. Brainerd; Jeanne T. Martin; Brian T. Smith; Jerrold L. Wagener, Fortran 95 Handbook: Complete ISO/ANSI Reference, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 192:
  In addition to the Fortran operators that are intrinsic (built in), there may be user-defined operators in expressions.

Derived terms

Translations

Computer language

French: fortran (fr)
Polish: Fortran (pl) m

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