The FORTRAN Programming Language

The FORTRAN Programming Language, FORmula TRANslation, 1957
FORTRAN FORTRAN
Name: FORTRAN
Created: 1957
By: IBM, John Backus
Home Page: http://www.ibm.com/
Acronym: FORmula TRANslation
Language type: block-structured
Extensions: .cod .f .f77 .fd .fi
Tutorial: http://macams1.bo.infn.it/tutorial/
Note:   This language became so popular in the early 1960s that other vendors started to produce their own versions and this led to a growing divergence of dialects (by 1963 there were 40 different compilers).
 

How should one spell FORTRAN/Fortran?

     FORTRAN is generally the preferred spelling for discussions of versions of the language prior to the current one ("90"). Fortran is the spelling chosen by X3J3 and WG5. In this document a feeble effort has been made to capitalize accordingly (e.g. vast existing software ... FORTRAN vs. generic Fortran to mean all versions of the standard, and specifically the modern dialect, ISO 1539:1991).

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