Fortran
Programming Language
'We're the Experts, Trust Us,' Has Clearly Gone by the Wayside...trying against insuperable odds to deal with a congeries of poorly documented data sets. Second: There is strong internal evidence in the FORTRAN code that has become available to suggest that without unjustifiable doctoring the data these... In this article: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, E-mail, Climate change, NASA, Global warming, University of East Anglia, and Max Cleland |
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Boing Boing | 2 days ago
More Insight on Those Leaked Climate Change Emails
...that people are digging into the code that was released, it kind of looks like they may have been trying to hide their embarrassing skills at FORTRAN more than anything else. I suspect that it wasn't so much a hack but an accidental leak,...
In this article: Climate change, Emails, Global warming, University of East Anglia, Silver, Flickr, and Comedy Central
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The Volokh Conspiracy - - | 3 days ago
More Monbiot on CRU E-mail Leak
...the extraordinary nature of the CRU code is Dave Freer's analysis. Highlights include counting the number of lines in a file by using Fortran to call the Unix wc command, to write to another file with a hard-coded predefined filename, then...
In this article: Climate change, University of East Anglia, Global warming, and Wikipedia
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The Volokh Conspiracy - - | 3 days ago
Commas and Periods - Inside Closing Quotation Marks or Outside Them?
...my programming background has something to do with it, but iirc I was writing in English long before I started writing in BASIC (or FORTRAN, for that matter). ArthurKirkland says: I believe this issue was batted about a few months ago in...
In this article: Ceteris paribus, Supreme Court, DOJ, and Chicago
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run | 3 days ago
Climategate -- Forget the Emails: What Will the Hacked Documents Tell Us?
...perspective - since we're using an off-the-shelf product that isn't documented sufficiently to say that. Why this wasn't coded up in Fortran I don't know - time pressures perhaps? Was too much effort expended on homogenisation, that there...
In this article: Climate change, WMO, Emails, Programmer, and Declan McCullagh
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The Register | November 20, 2009
Nvidia previews next-gen Fermi GPUs
...compiler to work within the CUDA parallel programming environment that Nvidia created for its graphics cards and co-processors; this Fortran has been in beta testing for about three months. There are projects that have pulled the CUDA...
In this article: Nvidia, CUDA, Tesla, C++, Intel, Oak Ridge, and Portland
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The Register | November 15, 2009
Appro: HPC's all about the GPUs
...of CUDA." CUDA is the parallel programming environment that allows C programs to call the GPU to feed it math. It still needs C++ and Fortran hooks, by the way, but hopefully these will be ready with Fermi. If AMD gets error correction on...
In this article: Nvidia, Intel, Advanced Micro Devices, Cray, IBM, Linux Networx, CUDA, and Silicon Graphics
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CNET News.com | November 10, 2009
Google hopes to remake programming with Go
...language and building into a major force in the industry. Sun Microsystems, which succeeded with Java, has had less success with a would-be Fortran successor called Fortress. But Go has some assets most languages don't. First, the...
In this article: Go, Google, Rob Pike, Ken Thompson, JavaScript, Unix, C++, Android, ARM, and Java
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MAKE Magazine | November 08, 2009
Lisp Manga...
...syntax. Originally specified in 1958, Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today; only Fortran is older. Subscribe today, save 42% and get web access to MAKE free. MAKE Digital Edition is available...
In this article: Lisp
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Lambda the Ultimate - Programming Languages Weblog | November 06, 2009
John Hughes on Erlang and Haskell
...the present indeed. One of the things I do wonder about though, is when I got interested in the field, the mainstream was probably Fortran and COBOL and even C was fairly new at that time. The functional programming pioneers spoke of an order...
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Wired Top Stories | October 14, 2009
Oct. 15, 1956: Fortran Forever Changes Computing's Fortunes
Fortran development team leader John Backus, left, and computer scientist John Cocke, circa 1966, on a souvenir matchbook. 1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three...
In this article: John W. Backus, Wired.com, Vassar College, IBM, E mail, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Columbia University, and United Aircraft
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Fortran (previously FORTRAN) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM 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 (CFD), 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.
Fortran (a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions. Successive versions have added support for processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, module-based programming and object-based programming (Fortran 90 / 95), and object-oriented and generic programming (Fortran 2003).
- Designed By:
- John Backus
- Developed by:
- John Backus & IBM
- Latest Release:
- Fortran 2003
- Influenced:
- ALGOL 58, BASIC, PL/I, C
- Latest Release Date:
- 2003
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