John Backus led the development Fortran, which was the first mainstream programming language and is still heavily influential today John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream ...

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 ...

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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 … ...

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 ...