FORTRAN = FORmula TRANslation. I learned it in 1987 as WATFIV on an IBM Mainframe running DOS/VSE. It gave way to BASIC, and last I knew in 2000 we were using

FORTRAN = FORmula TRANslation. I learned it in 1987 as WATFIV on an IBM Mainframe running DOS/VSE. It gave way to BASIC, and last I knew in 2000 we were using Visual BASIC. OpenWatcom FORTRAN 77 is here: https://openwatcom.org/ftp/install/ https://openwatcom.org/ftp/install/ GNUFORTRAN is here: https://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ https://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/ GNUFORTRAN is part of GCC: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/GFortran