Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.
Fortran (a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions.
Successive versions have added support for processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and object-oriented programming (Fortran 90 / 95), and object-oriented and generic programming (Fortran 2003).
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Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.