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{{Short description|Programming language}}
{{Infobox programming language
 | name                   = Ratfor
 | released               = {{Start date|1976}}
 | developer              = [[Brian Kernighan]]
 | influenced by          = [[Fortran]], [[C (programming language)|C]]
 | website                = [http://sepwww.stanford.edu/doku.php?id=sep:software:ratfor sepwww.stanford.edu]
}}

'''Ratfor''' (short for ''Rational Fortran'') is a [[programming language]] implemented as a [[preprocessor]] for [[Fortran#FORTRAN 66|Fortran 66]]. It provides [[Structured programming|modern control structures]], unavailable in Fortran 66, to replace [[GOTO]]s and statement numbers.