I learned to program FORTRAN IV in the spring of 1968 while working as an engineering technician in water resources. One of the engineers knew of my interest in computers and asked if I would like ...

reference books still talked about FORTRAN IV from 1961. Things have moved on, and Fortran 2018 was agreed a while ago. The newly appointed Flang compiler is mostly compatible with Fortran 18 ...

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 ...

Origins and FORTRAN IV [John W. Backus] suggested to IBM a language to replace assembly language. Development began in 1953 for the IBM 704 and the project reached fruition in 1957.