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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
FORTRAN is a high level language used for ____ purposes.
A
Scientific
B
Educational
C
Trade
D
Instructional
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Fortran is a general purpose programming language mainly used by the scientific community. It is fast, portable and it has seamless handling of arrays and parallelism. It is one of the earliest high level programming languages, and many recognize the original versions which used punched cards to encode the programs.

Detailed explanation-2: -Fortran is a language that is specialized for high-performance computing. Good reasons for its continued use today include its performance-centric culture, an easy-to-use array syntax, the guarantee of long code longevity, and intrinsic distributed-memory parallelism via coarrays.

Detailed explanation-3: -More than 50 years after its debut, Fortran, the first high-level computer language, is still used every day: in Doppler radar weather forecasts or atmospheric and oceanic studies, as well as simulating nanoparticles, genomes, DNA and atomic structures.

Detailed explanation-4: -Scientific programming languages in the stronger sense include ALGOL, APL, Fortran, J, Julia, Maple, MATLAB and R.

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