Fortran
The first high-level language, still the core of weather, physics and supercomputer codes. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- programming language
- Developer
- ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 22/WG 5
- Created by
- John Backus
- First release
- 1957
- License
- Open standard
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://fortran-lang.org
- Paradigms
- Procedural, Object-oriented, Concurrent
- Typing
- Static
- Type strength
- Strong
- Type inference
- No
- Memory management
- Manual
- Runs as
- Native code
- Main implementation
- gfortran, Intel ifx, LLVM Flang
- Concurrency
- Coarrays, do concurrent, OpenMP, MPI
- Null safety
- No
- Package manager
- fpm (Fortran Package Manager)
- Used for
- Scientific computing
- Specification
- ISO/IEC 1539