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 ...

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.

In some large systems, Fortran code can be responsible for 80-100% of the computation. It’s also incredibly easy to learn, as you’ll see with this short introduction to Fortran programming.

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) ...

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. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was ...

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

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 John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream ...

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