The Fortran programming language underlies services ranging from weather prediction to supercomputing. Despite its long history and continued popularity, the language has had no rules to guide the ...

1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three years in the making, it would be refined in work that continues to this day. While this ...

Advances in science and engineering still rely on Fortran more than any other language by many important measures. Surprised? You shouldn’t be, although many people who call themselves programmers ...

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 work on ...

FORTRAN started out as IBM's' Mathematical Formula Translating System. It was designed by a team led by John Backus and targeted computationally intensive applications from physics to weather ...

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. Subscribe to ...