Fortran is an imperative programming language compiled for general purposes that are particularly suitable for numerical computing and scientific computing.
Fortran was first launched in 1954, Fortran is and is still commonly used as the oldest programming language. Scientific fields, in particular, numerical weather prediction, computational fluid dynamics, and computational physics find their applications.
Fortran is quite common in high-performance computing and is used to mark the program bench and rank the fastest supercomputers in the world.
Fortran is a compiled language, or more specifically it is compiled ahead-of-time. In other words, you must perform a special step called the compilation of your written code before you are able to run it on a computer. This is where Fortran differs from interpreted languages such as Python and R which run through an interpreter which executes the instructions directly but at the cost of computing speed.
Fortran is the dominant programming language used in engineering applications. It is therefore important for engineering graduates to be able to read and modify Fortran code. From time to time, so-called experts predict that Fortran will rapidly fade in popularity and soon become extinct. These predictions have always failed. Fortran is the most enduring computer programming language in history. One of the main reasons Fortran has survived and will survive is software inertia.
Over the years, a vast collection of code has been written with Fortran in many scientific and engineering machines, allowing the language to persist.
Some of the reasons you should learn Fortran:
1. Built-in support for arguments in subroutines
2. Rich set of intrinsic functions
3. Built-in support for complex numbers
4. Support for array notation allowing operations on array sections
5. Strong aliasing rules for memory pointers, resulting in more efficient code after compilation
Fortran has many advantages, some of which are:
Fortran - Introduction/Overview
Fortran - Environment Setup
Fortran - Basic Syntax
Fortran - Data Types
Fortran - Variables
Fortran - Constants
Fortran - Operators
Fortran - Decisions
Fortran - Loops
Fortran - Numbers
Fortran - Characters
Fortran - Strings
Fortran - Arrays
Fortran - Dynamic Arrays
Fortran - Derived Data Types
Fortran - Pointers
Fortran - Basic Input Output
Fortran - File Input Output
Fortran - Procedures
Fortran - Modules
Fortran - Intrinsic Functions
Fortran - Numeric Precision
Fortran - Program Libraries
Fortran - Programming Style
Fortran - Debugging Program
Fortran - Exams and Certification
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