Learn in the textbookTypes of Representative Programming Languages
DefinitionFortran is one of the very first high-level languages, designed for numerical and scientific computation.
ExplanationA high-level language lets people write programs in words and formula-like notation that are easy to read, rather than in machine code. Fortran was developed at IBM in the 1950s and lets you describe calculations in a style close to mathematical formulas. It is still used today for large-scale number crunching such as weather forecasting and physics simulations.
Memory hookThe name is short for Formula Translation.