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Fortran (FORmula TRANslation) is one of the oldest high level languages, certainly the oldest that is still in use. It was originally developed by IBM in the late 1950s, and has been through numerous revisions since then. The latest version is Fortran 90, the preceding version was Fortran 77.
A free Fortran 77 compiler |
Notes on Fortran Programming, a complete Fortran textbook | |
Fortran 90 for the Fortran 77 Programmer, a tutorial on upgrading from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90 | |
The Fortran FAQ from the newsgroup comp.lang.fortran | |
A Fortran 90 addition to the Fortran FAQ |
The Fortran Marketplace | |
Lahey Computer Systems, a major source of Fortran-related software | |
Tomasz Plewa's Numerical Methods page has lots of links to Fortran-related resources | |
The Numerical Algortihms Group provides Fortran software and information | |
Fortran links at Yahoo (or at Yahoo UK) | |
The newsgroup comp.lang.fortran |