FORTRAN (short for Formula Translation) is the world’s first high-level procedural programming language, created at IBM in the 1950s. It revolutionized coding by making it accessible to scientists and ...

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 ...

He was 82. In the 1950s, Backus headed a small team at IBM trying to find a way to make computers more useful for scientists and mathematicians. Prior to developing Fortran, computers essentially ...

The IBM 1401 is undeniably a classic computer ... and they’ve hit quite a milestone — They can now compile and run FORTRAN II code. Getting the 1401 to run FORTRAN II itself is quite an ...

Although the first specification of the Fortran language was released in 1956, IBM delivered its first compiler in 1957, hence this year marks the 50th anniversary of the introduction of Fortran ...

Let’s go back to the very first compiler, IBM Fortran, in 1957. It was an amazing piece of technology. If you look at where it started and what they came up with, it was the kind of effort that you ...

The FORTRAN I compiler was developed from 1954 to 1957 for the IBM 704 by an all-star team led by John W. Backus, who was also a co-designer of the IBM 704 itself. It was an optimizing compiler ...

Fortran was originally developed by IBM. It quickly became the dominant language for engineering and scientific applications. Indeed, Fortran was the trusted language for programs that benchmarked and ...

The State University of New York at Buffalo had an IBM 704 but they soon upgraded to a CDC 6400. To help pay for it they were inviting people to attend a seminar on FORTRAN so they could use the ...

Under Thomas Watson Jr., who succeeded his father, IBM developed the first computer disk drive, the DRAM chip and computer languages like Fortran. In the 1960s came the mainframe computer called ...

He was 82. Backus died Saturday in Ashland, Ore., according to IBM Corp., where he spent his career. Prior to Fortran, computers had to be meticulously "hand-coded" — programmed in the raw ...