FORTRAN<formula translator>
科学技術計算のために,1956年に開発されたプログラム言語で,広範囲の計算式を簡単な演算命令の形でコンピュータに与えることができる.この命令の記述形式は,普通の数式にかなり近く,+,-,*(掛け算),/(割り算),=など演算記号もほぼそのまま記述できる.演算以外の命令も簡単で,文章に近い形式をとっている.
出典:Wiktionary
A variant capitalization of FORTRAN (formally adopted with Fortran 90 in 1991), a blend of formula + translator or formula + translation.
Fortran
出典:Wikipedia
出典:『Wikipedia』 (2011/07/18 11:42 UTC 版)
Fortran (previously FORTRAN; both blends derived from IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry. It is one of the most popular languages in the area of high-performance computing and is the language used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers.
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