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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved ...

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed the way people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died at 82. Backus died ...

Objective-C, the programming language superseded by Apple's Swift for iOS and macOS app development, has finally dropped off the top 20 most popular languages, according to the April 2021 edition of ...

The weary cliche 'old is gold' doesn't find much truck with IT industry people, who believe that anything that is in production is already obsolete because something newer is already making its way ...