FORTRAN

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FORTRAN

  1. Alternative letter-case form of Fortran, particularly its early forms.
    • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
      The brothers wrote the machine’s application software in FORTRAN, a programming language that is “a dinosaur from the late fifties,” Gregory said, adding, “There is always new life in this dinosaur.”