Fortran was the first commercial programming language ever, and is gaining popularity thanks to the massive need for (scientific) number crunching. Welcome back Fortran," says Tiobe.

A basic course in computer programming using FORTRAN 90/95. Topics include programming arithmetic, decisions, repetition, input/output structures, arrays and array processing, and simple algorithms ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

FORTRAN (short for Formula Translation) is the world’s first high-level procedural programming language, created at IBM in the 1950s. It revolutionized coding by making it accessible to scientists and ...

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, 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. Mr. Backus ...

Backus in the mid-1950s created Fortran, the first programming language that was relatively close to human speech.

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.