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- noun (Computers) a higher programming language with an instruction set designed for ease of expression of mathematical functions, much used in programming of scientific and mathematical problems.
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- proper noun A
high-level programming language developed in the 1950s forscientific ,engineering andnumerical computation .
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Slide 15: Fortran I Overview (continued) • First implemented version of FORTRAN - No separate compilation - Compiler released in April 1957, after 18 worker - years of effort - Programs larger than 400 lines rarely compiled correctly, mainly due to poor reliability of 704 - Code was very fast - Quickly became widely used Copyright © 2007
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PGI Fortran Workstation, The Portland Group's native parallelizing/optimizing FORTRAN 77,
AvaxHome RSS: Lacostes 2010
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My experience at building databases in FORTRAN is obsolete, for example.
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Mother Padberg first wrote a computer program in FORTRAN for an IBM-1620 computer to enable her to write a canon for two or four voices.
Archive 2008-03-01 Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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Mother Padberg first wrote a computer program in FORTRAN for an IBM-1620 computer to enable her to write a canon for two or four voices.
Mother, Superior Matthew Guerrieri 2008
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It was the size of a refrigerator, used punched paper tape to load programs through an optical reader, and we wrote programs in FORTRAN on teletype machines that produced the tape.
September 2006 2006
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In college I learned a computer language called FORTRAN, which is now extinct, but my lightweight exposure to computer languages does not translate into any kind of computer savvy now.
Instructions for Your Discontent Barrie Dolnick 2003
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In college I learned a computer language called FORTRAN, which is now extinct, but my lightweight exposure to computer languages does not translate into any kind of computer savvy now.
Instructions for Your Discontent Barrie Dolnick 2003
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(in FORTRAN) doing dynamic programming, a tool I've used repeatedly ever since.
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He chooses an antiquated computer language known as FORTRAN to make his demands.
Calling ID's Bluff, Calling ID's Bluff... - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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