FORTRAN

FORTRAN was originally developed in the 1950’s for IBM by a team of programmers. Richard Goldberg, Sheldon F. Best, Harlan Herrick, Peter Sheridan, Roy Nutt, Robert Nelson, Irving Ziller, Lois Haibt and David Sayre wrote this as a draft for the IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System which was completed in 1954. This language was highly adopted by scientists. FORTRAN is one of the most popular languages in the area of high performance computing and programs to benchmark and rank the world’s fastest supercomputers. This program is still used in science and engineering. Fortran is short for Formula Translation/Translator. An example for “hello world” program in FORTRAN. program hello print *,"Hello World!" end program hello