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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Perl, Fortran, GNU Compiler Collection, Yacc, Lex, GNU Debugger, Cfront, FASM, Make, C99, Ctags, E theorem prover, WaveMaker, M4, Glob, ILNumerics.Net, Ar, GNU Assembler, Strace, Netpbm, Configure script, Cscope, Command substitution, S-Lang, Newt, Distcc, TenDRA Compiler, Hoc, Sbrk, Makedepend, Smalltalk YX, Gdbserver, FreeMat, Fastmake, Genius, GNU Prolog, Dbx, Mk, GPUTILS, Expr, Indent, Ktrace, TotalView, Data Display Debugger, Size, MoOLIT, Citrus Project, Strip, Lipog, Memory Pool System, Nm, Objdump, Ltrace, Clig, Gist, SPASS, EasyEclipse, Truss, Bcheck. Excerpt: Fortran (previously FORTRAN; both blends derived from IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM at their campus in south San Jose, California in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continual use for over half a century in computationally intensive areas such as numerical weather prediction, finite element analysis, computational fluid dynamics, computational physics and computational chemistry. It is one of the most popular languages in the area of high-performance computing and is the language used for programs that benchmark and rank the world's fastest supercomputers. Fortran encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions. Successive versions have added support for processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and object-based programming (Fortran 90 / 95), and object-oriented and generic programming (Fortran 2003). An IBM 704 mainframeIn late...
