"Many of you have by now been told that Fortran is an obsolete language. I was told the same thing when I started in 1968. A major reason for this notion is that computer languages are generally developed and taught by Computer Scientists. Fortran is unquestionably not the best language for the types of applications found in Computer Science. The C language was developed for writing operating systems, compilers, and other related applications. As a result, many focused on these disciplines, see it and its relatives (C++) as the languages of choice. Many other languages have come and gone over the years, with varying followings.
Fortran (Formula Translation System) was developed by IBM specifically for performing scientific calculations. International language standards have been developed and expanded over the years to provide a uniform language syntax and set of supporting functions for all calculational needs in these fields. As a result, the body of scientific and engineering applications that have been developed over the last 30+ years is immense. If no new scientific programs were written in Fortran, the number of job opportunities supporting existing applications would still be quite large. However, with the release of the Fortran 90 language standards, Fortran continues to be the first choice for new scientific programs, and is the focus of efforts to develop computationally intensive applications for new generations of parallel and vector computers, through the use of an extention of Fortran 90 called High Performance Fortran (HPF)."
Fortran (Formula Translation System) was developed by IBM specifically for performing scientific calculations. International language standards have been developed and expanded over the years to provide a uniform language syntax and set of supporting functions for all calculational needs in these fields. As a result, the body of scientific and engineering applications that have been developed over the last 30+ years is immense. If no new scientific programs were written in Fortran, the number of job opportunities supporting existing applications would still be quite large. However, with the release of the Fortran 90 language standards, Fortran continues to be the first choice for new scientific programs, and is the focus of efforts to develop computationally intensive applications for new generations of parallel and vector computers, through the use of an extention of Fortran 90 called High Performance Fortran (HPF)."
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