Fortran is one of the oldest programming languages; it was specifically designed for scientific and engineering applications back in the 1950s. Despite being a legacy language, Fortran is still ...

There’s an old saying: “I don’t know what programming language scientists and engineers will use in the 22nd century, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” FORTRAN was among the first real ...

This experimental code is an attempted proof-of-concept for ruby calling Fortran code via the ruby ffi library and Fiddle from ruby stdlib. There is also some simple C code called via FFI and Fiddle, ...

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) ...

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 ...

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, ...

Yes, there is a problem with this Fortran code: the variable isum is not initialized before it's used. Uninitialized variables contain garbage values which can lead to unexpected results when you run ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Last week NASA announced a code optimization competition. There is a Navier-Stokes equations solver used to model ...

Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainframe ...

67-year-programming language ranks in the top 10 of the Tiobe index of programming language popularity for two months running. Fortran’s return to the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of language ...