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Fortran vs jRuby

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

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
jRuby

jRuby

Development

jRuby is an implementation of the Ruby programming language that runs on the Java virtual machine (JVM). It allows developers to use Ruby syntax and libraries while leveraging the performance, scalability, and enterprise features of Java.

rubyjvmdynamicobjectoriented

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