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 ...

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 (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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I've always avoided Fortran when developing software. I've never completely trusted that any testing tools available we continue to be available and/or supported. This repo gives an example of how to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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) ...

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 ...