Fortran is an old programming language, but it specializes in advanced calculations and may still be used in physics departments, supercomputer research institutes, government agencies, etc. as of ...

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, ...

Fortran is a compiled, imperative programming language that was developed by IBM and first used in 1957. It was designed to be a high-level alternative to machine language with a focus on features ...

This course gives an introduction to the Fortran programming language with focus on the Fortran 2003 version. Applications of the knowledge learned during the course are aimed at writing efficient ...

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 to ...