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flat assembler vs Fortran

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

flat assembler

flat assembler

Development

Flat assembler (FASM) is an open-source assembler for the x86 and x86-64 CPU instruction sets. It supports all variations of x86 assembly language and can generate binary code for all flavors of MS-DOS, Windows, Linux and macOS. FASM is known for its speed, small size, and flexibility.

assemblerx86x8664assemblycompiler
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.

numeric-computingscientific-computingcompiledimperative

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