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Fortran vs Fortranlike - What's the difference?

fortran | fortranlike |

As a proper noun fortran

is a high-level programming language developed in the 1950s for scientific, engineering and numerical computation.

As an adjective fortranlike is

resembling or characteristic of fortran.

fortran

English

(wikipedia FORTRAN)

Alternative forms

* Fortran

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • A high-level programming language developed in the 1950s for scientific, engineering and numerical computation.
    • English words with optional capitalisation

    fortranlike

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Resembling or characteristic of Fortran.
  • * 1975 , Norman H Nie, SPSS: statistical package for the social sciences?
    • A wide variety of variable transformations can be accomplished in SPSS by means of simplified Fortranlike statements constructed by the user.
  • * 1986 , Michael F Hordeski, CAD/CAM techniques?
    • Other design languages also use Fortranlike statements and can be used with FORTRAN routines.
  • * 1992 , Mohammad Jamshidi, Charles J Herget, Recent advances in computer-aided control systems engineering?
    • They solve problems on explicit state space form, x = f(t,x), if the user defines a Fortranlike procedure which calculates f(t,x).