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Description: Fortran is a venerable programming language from the 1950s and 60s, used for scientific computing and numerical analysis. It has been mainly procedural for most of its life but recently has had object-oriented features added.
Fortran is available within Cygwin, as gcc-fortran.
History: Fortran (originally FORTRAN) was developed in the 1950s by John Backus of IBM. The current ANSI standard is Fortran 95.
Applications: I don't know what applications are being written now. Older code is usually ported somehow
to run on modern platforms.
Official Homepage: the Fortran Company
Newsgroup: comp.lang.fortran
Newsletter: none known
Related links:
the GNU Fortran legacy site
the g77 page
g77 for Windows
Wikipedia page for Fortran