Clune, who is NASA's main representative on the J3 Fortran committee, says the language is snagged on the question of supporting new features that risk breaking old code. "On the one hand ...

The FUN3D code is used to model how air flows around ... and is written in an older computer programming language called Fortran. "This is the ultimate 'geek' dream assignment," said Doug Rohn ...

The profusion of legacy code and numerical libraries written ... although certain quaint language features from old Fortran are removed from more recent standards. These are such abominations ...

At a Halloween party we threw for MIT students this weekend, the subject of Fortran came up (yeah, I know, nerdy stuff) which pretty much drew blank looks from the more junior witches and warlocks.

She envisions aging banks using it to upgrade decades-old Fortran code to Ruby or any other modern language. Nate Holland, an engineer with software company SpiceWorks, has used a earlier version ...

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 ...

After all, what could be better than ditching decades of crusty old code in a language that only ... not just write shaders in C? Similarly, Fortran (Formula translating system) was designed ...

The FUN3D code is used to model how air flows around ... and is written in an older computer programming language called Fortran. "This is the ultimate 'geek' dream assignment," said Doug Rohn ...