Golden Oldie’ Ada Hits Popularity Milestone Your email has been sent The programming language Ada rose to 9th place in the ...

John Backus led the development Fortran, which was the first mainstream programming language and is still heavily influential today John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream ...

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 ...

Fortran was the first commercial programming language ever, and is gaining popularity thanks to the massive need for (scientific) number crunching. Welcome back Fortran," says Tiobe.

From the time when they used to be loaded into gargantuan machines via punchcards and tape to the present day, individual programming languages have always had their passionate advocates - and ...

Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

Invented in 1954, the world's first widely used high- level language is ' Fortran '. Despite the existence of a wide variety of programming languages, Martin D. Maas of the California ...

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, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.