Version 2 of Fortran

Updated 2002-09-10 00:40:20

FORTRAN (the correct spelling), aka FORMULA TRANSLATION, is a language that has been around for many years. It originally was card punched and had peculiar characteristics due to that (with regard to continuing lines, etc.). These days, FORTRAN 90 and newer editions work on all sorts of computers.

FORTRAN tends to be used for number crunching, modeling, etc. and has many libraries to provide support for such things.

see http://www.faqs.org/faqs/fortran-faq/ for more info.


How does a FORTRAN application gain a GUI? The best-known commercial solution is Winteracter [L1 ]. Many of us, though, find managing Fortran programs with Tk more satisfying.


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