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Anybody know Fortran?
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Fortran (previously FORTRAN[1]) is a general-purpose[2], procedural,[3] 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 climate modeling[1]PDF (255 KiB), computational fluid dynamics (CFD), computational physics, financial computing, and computational chemistry.
Fortran (a portmanteau derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while 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).
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LOL... Thanks for that explanation! 
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no i think computer of the older time was so big as like a home and no body of that time know that it will be consist in a single chip and really computer is a great thing which has change the human,s life totally
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