Fortran

Fortran (Formula Translation) was the first successful high-level language. Designed for intensive numerical computing, it remains unbeatable in scientific simulations, weather modeling and supercomputing. More alive than you'd think.

• Creado por John Backus (IBM)
• Año 1957
• Paradigma: Imperative · compiled
• Extensiones: .f, .f90, .f95, .for

Para qué se usa

• Scientific computing
• Numerical simulations
• Supercomputing

A favor

• Blazing fast at numbers
• Decades of libraries
• HPC standard

En contra

• Dated syntax
• Few young programmers
• Not very versatile

Ecosistema

• gfortran
• LAPACK
• BLAS
• OpenMP
• MPI

Ejemplo

program hola
  print *, "¡Hola, mundo!"
end program hola