FORTRAN

FORmula TRANslator.

The first and still the most widely used programming language for numerical and scientific applications. The original versions lacked recursive procedures and block structure and had a line-oriented syntax in which certain columns had special significance.

There have been a great many versions.

See also convert.f90, Fortrash.

[Was FORTRAN I the first version?]

(24 Oct 1994)