Fortran
General-purpose programming language
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| April 2024 | Fortran ranked among the top ten languages in the TIOBE index, demonstrating its continued relevance in programming language popularity. |
| November 2023 | Fortran 2023 (ISO/IEC 1539-1:2023) was officially published, representing a minor extension of Fortran 2018 that corrects previous errors and introduces new features like enumerated type capability. |
| 2018 | Fortran 2018 incorporates ISO/IEC technical specification 29113, further enhancing flexible interoperation with other programming languages. |
| November 28 2018 | Release of Fortran 2018, a significant revision of the Fortran programming language that incorporated technical specifications for improved interoperability with C and additional parallel features. |
| June 2018 |
Pencil Code
Pencil Code added support for the HDF5 data format, enhancing its data storage and compatibility capabilities.
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| April 2015 |
Pencil Code
Pencil Code was migrated to GitHub, expanding its collaborative development platform.
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