<img src='https://scrapbox.io/api/pages/nishio-en/gpt/icon' alt='gpt.icon' height="19.5"/><a href="/en/FORTRAN">FORTRAN</a>, a programming language developed by IBM in 1957, is particularly suited for numerical and scientific calculations. Early FORTRAN advocated &quot;automatic programming&quot; and was designed to allow scientists and engineers to enter mathematical expressions directly into programs. This greatly reduced the effort of traditional <a href="/en/machine%20language">machine language</a> programming and made programming available to a much wider audience.
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The Fortran Automatic Coding System for the IBM 704 (October 15, 1956), the first programmer&#39;s reference manual for Fortran
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