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 ...

Currently released GNU compilers (e.g. GNU Fortran (Homebrew GCC 11.2.0_3) 11.2.0) do not support nested functions on Apple Silicon. This will change someday but it isn't clear when (see here). If ...

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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

Staying at the cutting edge is a requirement for every programmer and developer nowadays. Learning the latest languages and keeping up to date on the most popular ones will give any developer a ...

With the rise of WebAssembly (wasm) it’s become easier than ever to run native code in a browser. As mostly just another platform to target, it would be remiss if Fortran was not a part of this effort ...

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, ...

1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three years in the making, it would be refined in work that continues to this day. While this ...