There’s an old saying (paraphrasing a quote attributed to Hoare): “I don’t know what language scientists will use in the future, but I know it will be called Fortran.” The truth is, there is a ton of ...

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 ...

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, ...

This is Dr. Zaikun Zhang from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Together with Professor N.I.M. Gould, I am responsible for maintaining the derivative-free optimization solvers of the late ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...