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 . ...

... SFIT is a general-purpose code designed to optimize theoretical stellar spectra to an observed spectrum. ... While the programme expects input from "stdio", it is more natural to save commands in a file (eg "sfit_input") and run the code simply by . ... If the spectra to be fitted have a filename "star_spectrum", then the best fit spectrum will be written out, together with the renormalized input spectrum, to a file called "star_spectrum.fit". ... sets up model spectrum grid (and for 2nd star) . ...