portray

v 1: portray in words; "The book portrays the actor as a selfish

person"

2: make a portrait of: "showing society what it looked

like..portraying..its ugliness and its beauties.." [syn: {depict},

{limn}]

3: assume or act the character of; "She impersonates Madonna"

[syn: {impersonate}]

4: represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally;

"The father is portrayed as a coward in this play" [syn: {present}]

Fortran

(Formula Translation) The first and, for a long

time, the most widely used programming language for numerical

and scientific applications. The original versions lacked

{recursive} procedures and {block structure} and had a

line-oriented {syntax} in which certain columns had special

significance.

There have been a great many versions.

The name is often written "FORTRAN", harking back to the days

before computers were taught about lower case, but {ANSI}

decreed (circa. 1985 via the ANSI {FORTRAN} Technical

Committee {TC} that it should be "Fortran".

See also: {Fortrash}.

[Was {Fortran I} the first version?]

(2000-07-07)