The programming went well and somewhere out there is a very old paper with a reference to the results it generated about the Chadakoin River flowing through Jamestown, NY. This is FORTRAN’s ...

June 21, 2007 The programming language Fortran celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, having touched the lives of millions of programmers and billions of people in the half century since.

The BASIC system had a remote terminal with paper tape while the FORTRAN system was only available via punch cards that were shipped out daily. Imagine a two day debug turn around. The initial ...

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 ...

Invented in 1954, the world's first widely used high- level language is ' Fortran '. Despite the existence of a wide variety of programming languages, Martin D. Maas of the California Institute of ...

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 ...

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82. Backus died ...

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 in 1950 as a programmer was to ...

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82.

John Backus led the development Fortran, which was the first mainstream programming language and is still heavily influential today Topics Spotlight: AI-ready data centers ...