When was Fortran created?
in the 1950s
For what purpose?
for scientific and engineering applications
What was a name of an earlier version?
FORTRAN 77
Did they purposely spell it with capital letters?
yes
Has that practice ended?
yes
Starting with which version?
Fortran 90
What two words were used to come up with the name?
Formula Translation
What kind of language is it?
a general-purpose, imperative programming language
Did it lead programming of this type?
yes
How long has it been in use?
for over half a century
List something computationally intensive?
numerical weather prediction
Is it used to test and assess the world's fastest computers?
yes
What was added to new versions?
extensions to the language
Did they keep it backwards compatible?
usually
What kind of programming did they add support for?
structured programming
What other support was also added?
processing of character-based data
How about in Fortran 95?
high performance
And in 2008?
concurrent programming