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n. - A high-level programing language for mathematical and scientific purposes.

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Usage examples (38)
  • PGI FORTRAN Workstation, The Portland Group's native parallelizing/optimizing FORTRAN 77,
  • My experience at building databases in FORTRAN is obsolete, for example.
  • 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.
  • (in FORTRAN) doing dynamic programming, a tool I've used repeatedly ever since.
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