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FORTRAN

name
/ˈfɔː.tɹæn/UK/ˈfɔɹ.tɹæn/US

Etymology

A variant capitalization of FORTRAN (formally adopted with Fortran 90 in 1991), a blend of formula + translator or formula + translation.

  1. derived from translatour
  2. inherited from translatour
  3. borrowed from translator
  4. borrowed from trānslātor
  5. compounded as fortran — “formula + translator”

Definitions

  1. Alternative 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.”

  2. A high-level programming language first developed in the 1950s for scientific,…

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

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

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for FORTRAN. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA