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== Background ==
== Background ==


'''Fortran''' is a general-purpose programming language developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications. The latest Fortran standards 2003 and 2008 added support for object-oriented programming, inheritance, polymorphism, and parallel processing. Libraries written in [[C]] can be linked with the <code>iso_c_binding</code>. Interfaces to [[ncurses]], xlib, and [[OpenGL]] exist. Some Fortran compilers have Unicode support.  
'''Fortran''' is a general-purpose programming language developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications. The latest Fortran standards 2003 and 2008 added support for object-oriented programming, inheritance, polymorphism, and parallel processing. Libraries written in [[C]] can be linked with the <tt>iso_c_binding</tt> module. Interfaces to [[ncurses]], xlib, and [[OpenGL]] exist. Some Fortran compilers have Unicode support.


== Compilers ==
== Compilers ==

Latest revision as of 18:09, 17 December 2017

Fortran
Programming Language
Company multiple
Influences
Updated
Status Stable
Licensing multiple
Platforms Linux, Unix, mac OS, Windows and others.
[ Official site of Fortran]


Background

Fortran is a general-purpose programming language developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications. The latest Fortran standards 2003 and 2008 added support for object-oriented programming, inheritance, polymorphism, and parallel processing. Libraries written in C can be linked with the iso_c_binding module. Interfaces to ncurses, xlib, and OpenGL exist. Some Fortran compilers have Unicode support.

Compilers

Several commercial and open-source Fortran compilers are available for Linux, Unix, macOS, Windows, DOS, and others (see Fortran Wiki). GNU Fortran is part of the GNU Compiler Collection, Flang is a Fortran front-end for LLVM. Both support the Fortran standards 2003 and 2008.

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