FORTRAN computer language

This big increase in speed has not been without cost. The everyday machine codes and high-level languages (Fortran, Pascal, C, etc.) used to control operations in a standard computer are inappropriate for parallel processing, which needs its own instruction set and has led to the development of special languages for use with the transputer. 

Procedural computer languages (e.g., FORTRAN, PASCAL, BASIC, C/C++) by algorithmic links... 

External Processes. The Radial language supports interfacing to software written in the various computer languages available under UNIX Fortran, C, Pascal, Lisp, etc. The Radial language takes care of the details of passing arguments to and from external routines. This capability allows Radial to be used Just for the... 

A scientist who writes programs in FORTRAN or some similar, scientifically oriented computer language, may be unaware of the potential use of computers to solve computational, but not necessarily numeric, problems which might arise in his research. 

The Monte Carlo exposure calculations described in this chapter are carried out with a flexible computer software program named DistGEN (Sielken Inc., 1995). This program allows exposure equations to be specified in the general computer language called FORTRAN, so they can have practically any form. Furthermore, the user-specified distributions for the components of the exposure equations can be selected from a wide variety of classical statistical distributions (normal, log-normal, etc. with user-specified parameter values) or from sample data (either the sample... 

FORTRAN 77 was chosen as the computer language for IGOR and RAIN for the following reason ... 

For this example, the final result can be obtained by use of either an analog or digital computer. The details for obtaining the solution with a digital computer using the three computer languages of FORTRAN, BASIC, and PASCAL are presented in the following + Tables 13, 14, and 15 provide the... 

If you are familiar with computer languages such as BASIC or FORTRAN, you will find yourself quite comfortable with most of the material in this section. 

FORTRAN language (FORTRAN IV, F66) could only be used on large mainframe systems that accepted programs in batch. Turnaround was slow interaction was nil. The availability of microcomputers (IBM personal computers or compatible) has made it easier for numerical techniques, simulation, and design problems to be developed. Computer software can now be used interactively on such systems. 

The 65 locations are the 65 lairgest Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSA s). A computer program has been developed to perform these calculations for several types of technologies. The primary computer language used was PL/l with provisions for using FORTRAN in some of the cost calculations if desired. 

Press, W. H., et al., Numerical Recipes in Fortran 77 The Art of Scientific Computing, 2nd ed. New York Cambridge University Press, 1992. Also available for other computer languages. 

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