Fortran

The Power to Compute

First appeared: 1957Designed by: John Backus

The oldest high-level language still in wide use, optimized for numerical and scientific computing.

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ProceduralOOP

program hello
  print *, "Hello, World!"
end program hello

Created by John Backus at IBM in 1957. Fortran 90 modernized the language. Fortran 2023 is the latest standard.

Type system: Static

Package Managers

fpm (Fortran Package Manager)

Frameworks

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