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- FORTRAN
- FORmula TRANslator The first high-level programming language and compiler, developed in 1954 by IBM. It was originally designed to express mathematical formulas, and although it is used occasionally...
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- XML on the wane? Say it isn't so, Jack
- Ignorance is not bliss"I don?t know if XML would ever go the way of Fortan or Pick"1. Fortran or to us old people, FORTRAN.2. Pick. See http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/u2/ Not dead.
- Tags: Programming languages, XML
- Discussion threads 2009-09-25
- Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional 11.1 (Windows)
- Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional Edition delivers rapid development and winning performance for the full range of Intel processor-based platforms. Professional Edition comes with the compiler's breadth of advanced optimization, multi threading, and processor support, including automatic processor dispatch, vectorization, and loop un-rolling. It also provides a highly optimized math...
- Tags: Fortran, Compiler, Microsoft Windows, Intel Corp., Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional Edition, Development Tools, Processors, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Semiconductors, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2009-06-23
- Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional 11.1 (Mac)
- Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional Edition delivers rapid development and winning performance for the full range of Intel processor-based platforms. It provides the most comprehensive multicore and standards support with more parallelism development features; more Intel Advanced Vector Extensions, Advanced Encryption Standard, and SSE support; more Fortran 2003 features; and...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Fortran, Compiler, Intel Corp., Intel Visual Fortran Compiler Professional Edition, Development Tools, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-06-23
- Force 2.0.9 (Windows)
- Force is a full-featured programming environment for FORTRAN 77 the engineering programming language. It uses the FORTRAN G77 compiler to create programs in Win32 platform. Some characteristics include syntax colors, print preview, and translation option. Version 2.0.8: option for many Vertical Lines; popup menu in work area; focus the line...
- Tags: Fortran, Microsoft Windows, Programming, Lepsch, Programming Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-05-06
- Code Visual to Flowchart 6.0.0420 (Windows)
- Code Visual to Flowchart is an automatic flow chart generator software. It can reverse engineering a program, create programming flowchart from code, mostly used on flowcharting a program and documenting source code. It can generate Bmp, PNG, Visio, Word, Excel and PowerPoint flowcharts document, help programmers to document, visualize and...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server Transact-SQL, Flowchart, Fortran, Microsoft Visual Basic, C, Microsoft Windows, Programming, Fate Software, Programming Languages, Microsoft Development Tools, C/C++, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, .Net, Databases, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management
- Software downloads 2009-04-15
- OmegaChart 4.0 (Windows)
- OmegaChart 4.0 is a flowchart generator. This package converts source codes to their flowchart equivalence. The generated flowchart is viewable through Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Internet Explorer or Microsoft Visio. The package support languages written in Fortran 77, 90 and 95 fixed form; Fortran 90 and 95 free form; Visual Basic...
- Tags: Fortran, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Corp., Programming, Omega Charting Services, OmegaChart 4.0, Programming Languages, Productivity, Scripting Languages, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Web Development
- Software downloads 2009-01-18
- Intel(R) Visual Fortran Compiler Standard 10.1 (Windows)
- The Standard Edition compiler has the same performance and features as the Professional Edition compiler, but does not include Intel MKL or IMSL.
- Tags: Fortran, Compiler, Microsoft Windows, Intel Corp., Standard Edition Compiler, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2008-11-06
- ISOLA a Fortran Code and a Matlab GUI to Perform Multiple-Point Source Inversion of Seismic Data
- In this paper a software package for multiple or single point source inversion is presented. The package consists of ISOLA-GUI, a user-friendly MATLAB-based interface, and the ISOLA Fortran code, which is the computational core of the application. The software advantage is the graphical interface that provides the user with an...
- Tags: Software, Fortran, GUI, Matlab, University Of Patras, Software Advantage, Tools & Techniques, Programming Languages, Management, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2008-07-01
- Quickie3D 1.01 (Windows)
- Quickie3D rendering routines enable Fortran number crunchers to visualize their computations in 3D, with images saved as PostScript (.ps) or portable pixel map (.ppm) files. Four graphics commands (setup, reset, image, close) plus objects are easy to incorporate into existing Fortran code, and are particularly well suited to automatic generation...
- Tags: Fortran, Microsoft Windows, Graphics, IFRE, Quickie3D Library, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- Software downloads 2007-10-17
- Intel releases new 10.0 compiler
- Intel today has announced availability of the newest Intel 10.0 compilers for C++ and Fortran developers which boasts huge optimizations across a wide range of applications along with some basic auditing of code security. I spoke with Intel's James Reinders to get a better understanding of the product line and...
- Tags: Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, Fortran, Compiler, Intel Corp., George Ou
- Blog posts 2007-08-19
- The (IEED) development environment
- The critical development work for our research company is going to get done via notes jotted on paper or blackboards with help from packages like Mathematica, and therefore won't actually affect us IT grunts until the researchers start to produce prototype code. When that happens, however, at least one...
- Tags: Linux, Fortran, Compiler, Cell, Development Environment, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2007-08-08
- The (IEED) development environment
- The IEED development environmentSo then, Murph...... when you say [i]"because "Plan b" is C and it's almost as bad an answer as trying to hand optimise the intermediates produced by the IBM Fortran compiler"[/i] you are saying that one of your favourite company's Sun best known products Java isn't up...
- Tags: Programming languages, development environment, Redundancy, environment, Murph, Fortran
- Discussion threads 2007-08-08
- Improving Source Code Security and Quality Using Intel Compilers
- Compilers diagnostics capabilities have increased rapidly in recent years. Intel C++ and Fortran Compilers provide features that can enhance application security, improve source code quality and reliability. This paper is written for software developers and managers who want to learn the state of the art compiler diagnostic capabilities available in...
- Tags: Security, Fortran, Compiler, C++, Intel Corp., Programming Languages, C/C++, Development Tools, Software Development, Software/Web Development
- White papers 2007-08-01
- Programming Languages
- blot; forms(M,6,N); for (i=0;i < N; i++) { (-~i)+.x M;} MOVE A{[{i}*..]& is M} TO N Doesnt make sense? Try this: With sobs for his job, with tears for his toil, with horror for his...
- Tags: Programming languages, Development tools, programming language, Fortran, James Joyce, John Backus, programming
- Blog posts 2007-03-28
- Hats off to the father of FORTRAN
- The headline reads John W. Backus, 82, Fortran developer, dies. May he rest in peace. FORTRAN, short for "formula translator", was developed in 1957 and fifty years later, it is still of immeasurable value to researchers at universities all over the world. Today, we think of Education...
- Tags: Programming languages, Fortran, computer
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- From FORTRAN To Your Desktop: An Homage to the Man Who Started it All
- From FORTRAN To Your Desktop: An Homage to the Man Who Started it AllI still use FORTRANin my own and licensed apps. Almost all of the software used to design, synthesize and analyze optical systems is written in FORTRAN. Nowadays, they have nice C/C++ GUIs wrapped around them, but under...
- Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, OOA/OOD/OOP, Development tools, desktop, Fortran, Smalltalk, Backus
- Discussion threads 2007-03-20
- From FORTRAN To Your Desktop: An Homage to the Man Who Started it All
- When I read this morning the obituary of John Backus, one of the key creators of FORTRAN, I was surprised to learn that this venerable language was born in the middle of the Eisenhower administration, which makes it 50 years old and shows us all how much our industry is...
- Tags: Programming languages, C/C++, desktop, Fortran, John Backus
- Blog posts 2007-03-20
- Sun's Fortran replacement goes open-source
- Sun's Fortran replacement goes open-sourcemulti processor multicoreFortran is still prevalent in the scientific community and it is not all that different from Basic. I have to think that a Basic programmer who just can't get his or her head into objects and will always prefer procedural coding would benefit from...
- Tags: Programming languages, open source, Fortran, Sun Microsystems Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-01-12
- Self defeating desktop Linux strategies
- Back on August 9th Michael Singer had a very interesting analysis piece called "Linux on the desktop--almost there again?" focused around the observation that "even with all the hoopla last year about Linux progress, the buzz over breaking the Windows stronghold has died down considerably." The article drew 155 talkback...
- Tags: old way, systems implementation, desktop, Fortran
- Blog posts 2005-08-30
- Resurrection Time?
- Sun has a large group led by Guy Steele working on a language called "Fortress" -something they describe as "Java for scientists, Java for the programmers of a peta-scale supercomputer." Java started out as a hardware abstraction layer for set top TV boxes aimed at using the TV to provide...
- Tags: Java, APL
- Blog posts 2005-08-25
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