RATFOR - Programming language

RATFOR is a programming language created in 1976.

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Ratfor (short for Rational Fortran) is a programming language implemented as a preprocessor for Fortran 66. It provided modern control structures, unavailable in Fortran 66, to replace GOTOs and statement numbers.. Read more on Wikipedia...

Tags: programming language
Early development of RATFOR happened in Stanford University
RATFOR on HOPL
See also: (4 related languages) Fortran, C, Unix, Ratfiv
1 PLDB concepts link to RATFOR: EFL

Example from Riju:

PRINT *, 'Hello, world!'
END

Example from hello-world:

print *, 'Hello World'
end

Example from Wikipedia:

IF (A .GT. B) THEN
        MAX = A
      ELSE
        MAX = B
      ENDIF

Language features

Feature	Supported	Example	Token
Strings	✓	'Hello world'	'
Print() Debugging	✓		print