Solution: MATLAB is an interpreted language. All the other languages are compiled languages. In the case of Interpreted language, the translation to machine-language is performed incrementally at run-time.

Solution: The statement is false. The translation is performed once, then executable file is run as frequently as needed without further translation.

Solution: Fortran which stands for Formula Translation was the first widely-used high level language. It was developed by IBM for scientific applications. The program was entered as punch cards.

Solution: A file that contains the code or the main program is called as the source file. Source code must be processed by a compiler to create an executable file.

Solution: It is the program statement. program statement is followed by the program name.
Syntax : program xyz

Solution: Fortran is not a case sensitive language. For e.g. PROGRAM xyz also works. Also, multiple consecutive blank spaces are ignored.

Solution: Delimiter separates the tokens we use in our code. In a FORTRAN code, single blank space serves as a delimiter. Though, multiple blank spaces are ignored.

Solution: A compiler does this task. Internally, 3 steps are performed: preprocessing, checking and compiling. Further, assembler and linker do the work.

Solution: A variable declaration has the following syntax:
Data type :: variable name

Solution: Kind can be used for this purpose. It can often be used for the precision of reals. If you want to change the precision, it can easily be done using one line of code.