The very first successful FORTRAN program ran on September 20, 1954. Invented at IBM by a group led by John Backus, FORTRAN, standing for "FORmula TRANslator" was to first language to crack the ...

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 ...

"Old programming languages disappear when new technology emerges."Do you think so?In fact, the numerical calculation ...

The National Labs are using a new tool to integrate the 1950s-era Fortran computer language into their supercomputing infrastructure. National Labs Open Source Software Development The Fortran ...

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: John Backus, known as the father of the Fortran computer-programming language that made computers more accessible, and a longtime IBM employee, died last Saturday in Ashland, Oregon. He ...

John Backus, known as the father of the Fortran computer programming language that made computers more accessible, died Saturday in Ashland, Ore., according to the International Business Machines Corp ...

"Originally designed to solve a difficult training problem at the Western Data Processing Center" ...

John W. Backus, who assembled and led the IBM team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died Saturday at his home in ...

(reg. requ'd). for John Backus, who invented the Fortran computer programming language in the 1950s. IBM says he died Saturday at age 82 in Ashland, where he lived. From the obit: ...