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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

Sep 13, 2025 · FORTRAN, computer programming language created in 1957 by John Backus that shortened the process of programming and made computer programming more accessible. The …

The latest Fortran standard, informally known as Fortran 2023, was just recently released. In this talk, I will give an overview of the Fortran standardization process, followed by a high-level summary of the …

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

Feb 3, 2018 · The Fortran Wiki is an open venue for discussing all aspects of the Fortran programming language and scientific computing. See the mission statement for more details.