What is the Fortran language for? [closed]
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improve this questionOn what occasions, in the present day, is the Fortran language used? What is your strength and purpose?
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Serves the same as other high-level languages, it allows a human to write algorithm in such a way that after interpreted by some application (compiler or interpreter) it turns into instructions that the machine understands and executes this algorithm producing computational results.
As it was the first high-level language to be created its main asset was to allow an easier and simpler foma to write code avoiding some errors that they were very common in Assembly.
Since the beginning of computing only mattered calculations, it was thought to facilitate this and to this day it is seen as strong in complex numerical manipulations, especially with data vectors. Today it has several optimizations for this and because it has limitations in other points can focus on this part.
Of course it does several other things like any programming language, but it is very good at this and is even faster than C in some operations. And it does not have the idiosyncrasies of mechanism treatment that C has.