Fortran is the grandfather of all scientific languages.
The name Fortran is derived from FORmula TRANSlation
Fortran was first developed in 1954 by IBM.
In 1958 and 1962 Fortran II and IV, respetively, was released.
In 1966 Fortran IV was adopted as an ANSI standard, and it came to be known as Fortran 66.
In 1977 the update version of Fortran was released as Fortran 77
Next update was Fortran 90
In 1997 the minor update of Fortran 90 was Fortran 9