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Fortran, originally standing for Formula Translating System, is a programming language first developed in 1957 at IBM. Whilst the early versions of Fortran might seem archaic and obsolete to us today (they required fixed form input and were entered onto punched cards using a keypunch keyboard), its ease of use compared to assembly programming and features such as complex data types sparked a revolution in scientific and numeric computation. With an emphasis on speed and efficiency, Fortran quickly became the language of choice for those in science and engineering, and remains in use to this day for highly-intensive scientific computation.
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Izaac, J., Wang, J. (2018). Fortran. In: Computational Quantum Mechanics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99930-2_2
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