... Robert Hill (Northern Ireland Space Office at Armagh Planetarium) . ... On Wednesday 7 January 2009 the International Year of Astronomy (IYA2009), in which the Armagh Observatory and Armagh Planetarium are playing a major role, was officially opened in Ireland in the presence of the Irish President Mary McAleese and the Northern Ireland Minister for Education, Caitr ona Ruane, in a launch ceremony at the BT Young Scientist Technology Exhibition at the Royal Dublin Society, Dublin. ...

Fortran is a simple language . Fortran has always existed . Fortran compilers are generally available . Earlier the first programming language . ... Good at numerical analysis and technical calculations . ... A large number of programs and routines in Fortran are exchanged internationally . ... Fortran doesn't have reserved words, it has short identifiers, the identifiers do not have to be specified . ... Fortran programs are usually less well structured then Pascal programs . ...