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Fortran (/ˈfɔːrtræn/; formerly FORTRAN) is a third-generation, compiled, imperative programming language designed for numeric computation and scientific computing.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
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| Fortran | Designed by | John Backus | 1.00 | infobox |
| Fortran | Developer | John Backus and IBM | 1.00 | infobox |
| Fortran | Filename extensions | .f90, .f, .for | 1.00 | infobox |
| Fortran | First appeared | 1957; 69 years ago (1957) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Fortran | Paradigm | Multi-paradigm: structured, imperative (procedural, object-oriented), generic, array | 1.00 | infobox |
| Fortran | Stable release | Fortran 2023 (ISO/IEC 1539:2023) / November 17, 2023; 2 years ago (2023-11-17) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Fortran | Typing discipline | Strong, static, manifest | 1.00 | infobox |
| Fortran | Website | fortran-lang.org | 1.00 | infobox |
| electrical engineering.By 1960 | instance of | The inclusion of a complex number data type in the language made Fortran especially suited to technical applications | 0.80 | text |
| versions of FORTRAN were available for the IBM 709 | instance of | The inclusion of a complex number data type in the language made Fortran especially suited to technical applications | 0.80 | text |
| 650 | instance of | The inclusion of a complex number data type in the language made Fortran especially suited to technical applications | 0.80 | text |
| 1620 | instance of | The inclusion of a complex number data type in the language made Fortran especially suited to technical applications | 0.80 | text |
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