The resulting two standards, approved in March 1966, defined two languages, FORTRAN (based on FORTRAN IV, which had served as a de facto standard), and Basic FORTRAN (based on …

Fortran is a natively parallel programming language with intuitive array-like syntax to communicate data between CPUs. You can run almost the same code on a single CPU, on a shared …

Fortran was originally developed by a team at IBM in 1957 for scientific calculations. Later developments made it into a high level programming language. In this tutorial, we will learn the …

From its creation in 1954 and its commercial release in 1957 as the progenitor of software, Fortran (short for formula translation) became the first computer language standard. It helped …

Aug 4, 2025 · In this introduction to Fortran 90 and its later updates we will be looking at what exactly it is that makes Fortran still such a good choice today, as well as how to get started …

Feb 22, 2025 · Fortran (originally FORTRAN, from FOR mula TRAN slation) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially popular for numerical and …

Nov 4, 2025 · FORTRAN, computer programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made computer programming more accessible. …

Try the quickstart Fortran tutorial, to get an overview of the language syntax and capabilities.

Fortran is one of the oldest computer languages. It was developed in the 1950s by IBM for numeric calculations (Fortran is an abbreviation of "Formula Translation"). Despite its age, it is …

This FORTRAN study guide is a "hands on" introduction to programming using FORTRAN. The emphasis in this course is to learn how to program rather than to learn FORTRAN.