The resulting two standards, approved in March 1966, defined two languages, FORTRAN (based on FORTRAN IV, which had served as a de facto standard), and Basic FORTRAN (based on …

Fortran is a natively parallel programming language with intuitive array-like syntax to communicate data between CPUs. You can run almost the same code on a single CPU, on a shared-memory multicore …

Aug 4, 2025 · In this introduction to Fortran 90 and its later updates we will be looking at what exactly it is that makes Fortran still such a good choice today, as well as how to get started with it.

Fortran was originally developed by a team at IBM in 1957 for scientific calculations. Later developments made it into a high level programming language. In this tutorial, we will learn the basic concepts of …

Feb 22, 2025 · Fortran (originally FORTRAN, from FOR mula TRAN slation) is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially popular for numerical and scientific …

From its creation in 1954 and its commercial release in 1957 as the progenitor of software, Fortran (short for formula translation) became the first computer language standard. It helped open the door …

Nov 4, 2025 · FORTRAN, computer programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made computer programming more accessible. The …

Try the quickstart Fortran tutorial, to get an overview of the language syntax and capabilities.

Fortran Programming Tutorials -- a YouTube playlist of short (about 10-45 mins each) giving a thorough introduction to modern Fortran programming. Aimed at computational scientists.

Fortran has a long history. It was developed in 1954 as the first high-level programming language. Legacy code conforming to the former FORTRAN 77 (and earlier) standards is now called "old" …