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I used Fortarn 77 at my studies and it was OK. It's interesting for begginers with programing. I have solved many mathematical problems with it.
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Fortran is number one computer programming language for scientific reseach computations. Although C/C++ is doing also great. I think C/C++ might have a brighter future in this domain.
eltonjohn scientific community still use these VAX,UNIX super computers. Actually they use them a lot.
Open some antenna book and find a lot of codes are done in Fortran (Balanis book for example). They are now trying to move to Matlab and C/C++. Commercial and Academic communities only!
See these laboratories operated by US government. They use AIX Secret Version (that is the real name of this AIX version) or HP/UX multiprocessor powerful machines and exclusively Fortran for scientific computations and proccessing.
The first FORTRAN compiler was developed for the IBM 704 in 1954–57 by an IBM team led by John W. Backus. This was an optimizing compiler, because the authors reasoned that no one would use the language if its performance was not comparable to assembly language.
The language was widely adopted by scientists for writing numerically intensive programs, which encouraged compiler writers to produce compilers that generate faster code. The inclusion of a complex number data type in the language made Fortran especially suited to scientific computation. There are many vendors of high performance Fortran compilers today. Many advances in the theory and design of compilers were motivated by the need to generate good code for Fortran programs.
Several revisions of the language have appeared, including the well-known FORTRAN IV (also known as FORTRAN 66), FORTRAN 77, and Fortran 90. The most recent formal standard for the language, published in 1997, is known as Fortran 95. IBM's versions were never as popular as those developed by others, which was especially true of FORTRAN IV—WATFOR, the version of FORTRAN IV developed at the University of Waterloo, Canada, was universally preferred because it produced better reports of compilation errors. The software for automatically generating flow charts from FORTRAN programs was also developed outside IBM.
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