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Ceylon vs Fortran

A side-by-side look at Ceylon and Fortran. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

Ceylon

Ceylon

Development

Ceylon is an open source programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine or JavaScript runtimes. It features a strong and static type system, immutability by default, higher-order functions, metaprogramming, and modular and hierarchical visibility control.

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Fortran

Fortran

Development

Fortran is a general-purpose, compiled imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing. Originally developed by IBM in the 1950s for scientific and engineering applications, Fortran came to dominate this area of programming early on and has been in continuous use for over half a century.

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