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00:01:58 1 Naming
00:02:39 2 History
00:06:11 2.1 FORTRAN
00:10:25 2.1.1 Fixed layout and punched cards
00:13:57 2.2 FORTRAN II
00:14:58 2.2.1 Simple FORTRAN II program
00:16:47 2.3 FORTRAN III
00:18:14 2.4 IBM 1401 FORTRAN
00:18:54 2.5 FORTRAN IV
00:20:18 2.6 FORTRAN 66
00:22:42 2.7 FORTRAN 77
00:25:12 2.7.1 Variants: Minnesota FORTRAN
00:28:54 2.8 Transition to ANSI Standard Fortran
00:29:29 2.9 Fortran 90
00:31:30 2.9.1 Obsolescence and deletions
00:34:35 2.9.2 "Hello, World!" example
00:35:31 2.10 Fortran 95
00:35:42 2.10.1 Conditional compilation and varying length strings
00:39:03 2.11 Fortran 2003
00:40:32 2.12 Fortran 2008
00:43:49 2.13 Fortran 2018
00:45:42 3 Science and engineering
00:46:53 4 Language features
00:50:17 5 Portability
00:50:36 6 Variants
00:53:23 6.1 Fortran 5
00:53:32 6.2 FORTRAN V
00:54:07 6.3 Fortran 6
00:54:41 6.4 Specific variants
00:55:09 6.4.1 FOR TRANSIT for the IBM 650
00:57:05 6.5 Fortran-based languages
01:00:12 7 Code examples
01:04:25 8 Humor
01:05:10 9 See also
01:07:20 10 References



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SUMMARY
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Fortran (; formerly FORTRAN, derived from Formula Translation) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, FORTRAN came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continuous use for over six decades in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics, crystallography and computational chemistry. It is a popular language for high-performance computing and is used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.Fortran encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with prior versions. Successive versions have added support for structured programming
and processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and generic programming (Fortran 90), high performance Fortran (Fortran 95), object-oriented programming (Fortran 2003), concurrent programming (Fortran 2008), and native parallel computing capabilities (Coarray Fortran 2008/2018).
Fortran's design was the basis for many other programming languages. Among the better known is BASIC, which is based on FORTRAN II with a number of syntax cleanups, notably better logical structures, and other changes to work more easily in an interactive environment.