Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One of the first high-level programming languages, designed to solve problems that can be expressed algebraically and used mainly in mathematics, science, and engineering.
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- proper noun A
high-level programming language developed in the 1950s forscientific ,engineering andnumerical computation .
Etymologies
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Examples
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For added difficulty, we have to assume that our target users (climate scientists) are programming in Fortran, and are not using integrated programming environments.
Social Network Analysis Tools for Computational Science | Serendipity 2009
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For added difficulty, we have to assume that our target users (climate scientists) are programming in Fortran, and are not using integrated programming environments.
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Fortran is the language of choice and the reason has nothing to do with legacy code.
What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010
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Fortran is the language of choice and the reason has nothing to do with legacy code.
What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010
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Fortran is the language used because it allows you to express the mathematics and physics in a very clear succinct fashion.
What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010
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Nearly all modelers that I know are fluent not only in Fortran, but C, C++, and Perl as well.
What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010
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In my experience (when I was a climate modeller, talking to climate modellers), many who had had * enough* exposure to object orientation, would cheerfully admit that O-O codes could well have made some model tasks easier, but given that the job was already done in Fortran …
What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010
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P.S. As you are on sabbatical, can we expect you to be coding in Fortran soon?
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Fortran is the language used because it allows you to express the mathematics and physics in a very clear succinct fashion.
What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010
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Nearly all modelers that I know are fluent not only in Fortran, but C, C++, and Perl as well.
What makes software engineering for climate models different? | Serendipity 2010
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