This is a tutorial which I wrote for Fortran 90 (and beyond). It was written to accompany a presentation which I did for younger students at my university. It is directed at an audience which already ...

"This tutorial will present several features that the draft Fortran 2015 standard introduces to meet challenges that are expected to dominate massively parallel programming in the coming exascale era.

Fortran was developed by a team at IBM in 1957 for scientific calculations. It is an extremely old programming language as a stance in 2019. The name Fortran stands for FORmula TRANslator. Since it is ...

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 ...

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

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) ...