FORTRAN

 

 

  

 

 

 

    FORTRAN is short for FORmula TRANlator.  It was first developed between 1954 and 1957 by IBM.  It was used for scientific and engineering applications requiring complex mathematical computations.  This was one of the first procedure-oriented languages.

 

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