FORTRAN
FORTRAN is an acronym for FORmula TRANslation. The program was developed by IBM in the mid-1950s. Like BASIC, FORTRAN is a general-purpose, procedure-oriented language. It is widely used for scientific and engineering applications and number crunching. A large number of languages developed after FORTRAN have been influenced by its structure. However, it lacks flexibility in input/output operations.
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