John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was to ...

Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainframe ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking, with ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...

TIOBE Index News (May 2024): Why is Fortran Popular Again? Your email has been sent The AI boom is starting to show up on the TIOBE Index by bringing back a formative programming language. Fortran was ...

Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...

If speed isn't an issue you could try Cygwin which comes with gcc which includes a fortran compiler. I mention speed because IMO apps running under cygwin are noticably slower than 'native' ones. And ...

I learned to program FORTRAN IV in the spring of 1968 while working as an engineering technician in water resources. One of the engineers knew of my interest in computers and asked if I would like to ...

When Jim Keller talks about compute engines, you listen. And when Keller name drops a programming language and AI runtime environment, as he did in a recent interview with us, you do a little research ...

67-year-programming language ranks in the top 10 of the Tiobe index of programming language popularity for two months running. Fortran’s return to the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of language ...