fortran

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  1. a higher programming language with an instruction set designed for ease of expression of mathematical functions, much used in programming of scientific and mathematical problems.

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  1. a high-level programing language for mathematical and scientific purposes; stands for formula translation

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  • In this role candidates will be converting fortran, C, C++, —  Random feeds from Syndic8.com
  • I'm an old-school fortran programmer (I know, I know), and so I downloaded a fortran package that appeared to have the same functionality and adapted it to my needs. —  RealClimate
  • I'm finding the discussion here reminiscent of my own career - 5 years as a postdoc mostly running computational codes of one sort or another, added to my graduate degree in physics, left me with somewhere around 50,000 lines of code I had either written or heavily modified for my purposes (mostly C, some fortran, some perl - this was 15 years ago). —  RealClimate
  • I haven't really done any object oriented coding but I'm familiar with html, Perl, fortran and IDL. —  Cooking up a Shitstorm
  • It is gcc that gives me fortran, not slackware ... allright, but some gcc will not give me the fortran that i want ... —  LinuxQuestions.org
 

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