FORTRAN CHAPTER 1 AND 2 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS
What does Fortran? - ANSWER FORmula TRANslator
Fortran was the _____ optimized high-level language compiler. -
ANSWER first
Who / When / Where was it created and why? - ANSWER John
Backus, 1953, at IBM as an alternative to the assembly language on the
IBM 704 mainframe
When was the first draft spec, first manual, and first compiler delivered?
- ANSWER Mid-1954, Oct 1956, April 1957
Cobol followed Fortran in _____? - ANSWER 1960
It was designed for ____ & _______? - ANSWER Scientists and
Engineers
Fortran was initially a ______? - ANSWER general purpose, compiled
imperative language that is especially suited to numeric and scientific
computing
Fortran is a popular language for _______? - ANSWER high
performance computing
In what year was the language standardized? - ANSWER 1966
Revision of the lanugage led to this version, the most widely used
version? - ANSWER Fortran 77
Fortran 90 - ANSWER Array programming, modular programming, and
generic programming
Fortran 95 - ANSWER High performance Fortran
, Fortran 2003 - ANSWER Object oriented Fortran
Fortran 2008 - ANSWER Concurrent programming
What is a complex data type? - ANSWER Can be the elements of
multi-dimensioned arrays. Fortran has operators not functions to process
complex data
Is there a size limit to a Fortran array? - ANSWER No
What are the two most widely used Fortran versions? - ANSWER
Fortran IV and Fortran 77
How many rows and columns are on a Fortran punchcard? - ANSWER
12 rows and 80 columns
How many columns represent a character? - ANSWER One
How many cards represent one line of code? - ANSWER One
What is the collection of punch cards called? - ANSWER A deck
What is the anatomy of a Fortran statement? - ANSWER Column 1,
comment field
Columns 1 - 5, Statement label field
Column 6, Continuation field
Columns 7-72, Statement field,
Columns 73-80, Card number field
What happens when a "c" or * is place in column 1? - ANSWER The
entire line will be treated as a comment
Originally, statement labels were _____? - ANSWER Numeric
There is a maximum of _____ continued lines in Fortran IV and 77? -
ANSWER 99
ANSWERS
What does Fortran? - ANSWER FORmula TRANslator
Fortran was the _____ optimized high-level language compiler. -
ANSWER first
Who / When / Where was it created and why? - ANSWER John
Backus, 1953, at IBM as an alternative to the assembly language on the
IBM 704 mainframe
When was the first draft spec, first manual, and first compiler delivered?
- ANSWER Mid-1954, Oct 1956, April 1957
Cobol followed Fortran in _____? - ANSWER 1960
It was designed for ____ & _______? - ANSWER Scientists and
Engineers
Fortran was initially a ______? - ANSWER general purpose, compiled
imperative language that is especially suited to numeric and scientific
computing
Fortran is a popular language for _______? - ANSWER high
performance computing
In what year was the language standardized? - ANSWER 1966
Revision of the lanugage led to this version, the most widely used
version? - ANSWER Fortran 77
Fortran 90 - ANSWER Array programming, modular programming, and
generic programming
Fortran 95 - ANSWER High performance Fortran
, Fortran 2003 - ANSWER Object oriented Fortran
Fortran 2008 - ANSWER Concurrent programming
What is a complex data type? - ANSWER Can be the elements of
multi-dimensioned arrays. Fortran has operators not functions to process
complex data
Is there a size limit to a Fortran array? - ANSWER No
What are the two most widely used Fortran versions? - ANSWER
Fortran IV and Fortran 77
How many rows and columns are on a Fortran punchcard? - ANSWER
12 rows and 80 columns
How many columns represent a character? - ANSWER One
How many cards represent one line of code? - ANSWER One
What is the collection of punch cards called? - ANSWER A deck
What is the anatomy of a Fortran statement? - ANSWER Column 1,
comment field
Columns 1 - 5, Statement label field
Column 6, Continuation field
Columns 7-72, Statement field,
Columns 73-80, Card number field
What happens when a "c" or * is place in column 1? - ANSWER The
entire line will be treated as a comment
Originally, statement labels were _____? - ANSWER Numeric
There is a maximum of _____ continued lines in Fortran IV and 77? -
ANSWER 99
