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 ...

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 is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking, with ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved ...

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 on ...