Fortran is an old programming language, but it specializes in advanced calculations and may still be used in physics departments, supercomputer research institutes, government agencies, etc. as of ...

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 ...

When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers.

The Fortran whole-array is introduced in this document, along with its benefits over the index-array. The next section demonstrates how to use the whole array. We compare the performance of two codes ...

John W. Backus, the IBM computer scientist who developed the FORTRAN programming language in the 1950s, died at age 82 March 17 in Ashland, OR. FORTRAN was the first successful high-level programming ...

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 ...

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 ...

This repository contains the implementations of two case studies, each written in two different languages: Fortran and Python. The point of this is to explore how a languages' design decisions shape ...