FORTRAN

1. computer languagesAlternative letter-case form of Fortran, particularly its early forms.

   The brothers wrote the machine’s application software in FORTRAN, a programming language that is “a dinosaur from the late fifties,” Gregory said, adding, “There is always new life in this dinosaur.”

   1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker

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1. computer languagesA high-level programming language first developed in the 1950s for scientific, engineering, and numerical computation.

   In addition to the Fortran operators that are intrinsic (built in), there may be user-defined operators in expressions.

   1997, Jeanne C. Adams, Walter S. Brainerd, Jeanne T. Martin, Brian T. Smith, Jerrold L. Wagener, Fortran 95 Handbook: Complete ISO/ANSI Reference, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 192

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   He was the defiant homesteader, the crusty senior member of a research team who understood Algol and Fortran but couldn't read the secrets of his own heart.

   1972, Thomas M. Disch, 334