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, ...

I'm relatively new to the forums, but I happen to have a FORTRAN question that I hope is a easy one. So, I have FORTRAN 90, but my adviser likes me programming using 77 language (inherited code and ...

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 ...