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Fortran, former called FORTRAN is a general-purpose, essential programming language, which is developed by IBM. for scientific and engineering applications. Different from other programming languages such as: Visual C++, C#, Delphi etc. Fortran put forward to this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational physics, and computational chemistry.

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.

Statements of initial released Fortran for IBM 704

  • Dimension and Equivanlience.
  • Assignment; Three-way arithmetic.
  • If statements for checking exceptions, and If statements for manipulating.
  • GOTO, Do loops.
  • Formatted and Unformatted I/O.
  • Other I/O
  • Pause, Stop and Continue statements
  • Frequency statement

In 1958, IBM released Fortran II, the main enhancement is supporting procedural programming by allowing user-written subroutines and functions, introducing six new statements: subroutine, funtion, end, call, return and common.

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