"Fortran is a general purpose programming language, mainly intended for
mathematical computations in e.g. engineering. Fortran is an acronym for
FORmula TRANslation, and was originally capitalized as FORTRAN. However,
following the current trend to only capitalize the first letter in acronyms,
we will call it Fortran. Fortran was the first ever high-level programming
languages. The work on Fortran started in the 1950's at IBM and there have
been many versions since." (Dr. Vincent Daniel)
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