EFL is a programming language originated by programmer A.D. Hall in the late 1970s and completed by
Stuart Feldman
Stuart Feldman is a computer scientist. He is best known as the creator of the computer software program ''make''. He was also an author of the first Fortran 77 compiler, was part of the original group at Bell Labs that created the Unix operat ...
. It was intended to improve on
Fortran by adding control structures similar to those of
C and was implemented as a preprocessor to a Fortran compiler. Its name is an initialism for ''Extended Fortran Language''. It is roughly a superset of
Ratfor
Ratfor (short for ''Rational Fortran'') is a programming language implemented as a preprocessor for Fortran 66. It provides modern control structures, unavailable in Fortran 66, to replace GOTOs and statement numbers.
Features
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Fortran programming language family