Fortran
ParadigmMulti-paradigm: structured, imperative (procedural, object-oriented), generic, array
Designed byJohn Backus
DeveloperJohn Backus and IBM
First appeared1957
Stable releaseFortran 2023 (ISO/IEC 1539:2023) / November 17, 2023
Typing disciplineStrong, static, manifest
Filename extensions.f90, .f, .for
Websitefortran-lang.org
Major implementations
Absoft, Cray, GFortran, G95, IBM XL Fortran, Intel, Hitachi, Lahey/Fujitsu, Numerical Algorithms Group, Open Watcom, PathScale, PGI, Silverfrost, Oracle Solaris Studio, VAX/DEC/VSI, others
Influenced by
Speedcoding
Influenced
ALGOL 58, BASIC, C, Chapel,1 CMS-2, DOPE, Fortress, MATLAB, PL/I, PACT I, MUMPS, IDL, Ratfor, SAKO2
• Fortran at Wikibooks

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Footnotes

  1. “Chapel spec (Acknowledgements)” (PDF). Cray Inc. October 1, 2015. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 5, 2016. Retrieved January 14, 2016.

  2. Report of a Visit to Discuss Common Programming Languages in Czechoslowakia and Poland, 1963, John A. Gosden (Editor), Roger E. Gay, John L. Jones, Jack N. Merner, Christopher J. Shaw