計算機常用的幾種語言：FORTRAN語言

FORTRAN

　　FORTRAN is the oldest high-level language stilling widespread use today. It is popular in the scientific community, having libraries of mathematical subgroup-tines, and is also often chosen for its portability. New standards are developed for the language every few years，with FORTRAN77 being shortly superseded。

　　FORTRAN allows independent compilation：Program comprises a main program and possibly other program units, which may be subroutines, functions or 'blocks' for data initialization。

　　FORTRAN has an archaic syntax ．but will continue to be used in solving mathematical problems because of the body of experience in such use and the extensive library of routines available．It is also stronger than PASCAL on input-output. However it may be superseded by Adam when there are a sufficient number of implementations of Adam to give comparable portability, and when the libraries have been translated. Thus there may be little point in going beyond FORTRAN77 in standardization.

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FORTRAN語言

　　FORTRA語言是目前仍在廣泛 應用的最古老的高級語言。它在科 學界很普及，它具有許多數學子程序庫，由於它的可移植性，所以它 經常被人們選用。每過幾年，人們 就爲該語言推出新的標準， FORTRAN77近期將被取代。

　　FORTRAN允許獨立編譯：一個程序包含一個主程序，可能還包含其他幾個程序單元，它們可能是例行子程序。函數或數據初始化用的“程序塊”。

　　FORTRAN具有古躰語法，但它將繼續被用來解決數學問題，這是因爲在這方麪的應用中有許多經騐主躰和廣泛應用的程序庫。在輸入輸出方麪，它也比PASCAL強。但是，儅Ada語言中具有足夠的實現手段以便具有可與FORTRAN比擬的可移植性時，以及儅FORTRAN程序庫已被繙譯好時，FORTRAN可以被Ada所代替。所以在標準化方麪，很少會有超過FORTRAN77的。