FortranCon 2020 is the first International Conference targeting the development for and with the Fortran programming language and will take place on July 2 – 4 in Zurich, Switzerland. In recent years ...

Stuart Feldman has played a prominent role in the evolution of the computer industry. He wrote Make, a key software program for Unix operating systems, and developed the first 77 compiler for the ...

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 ...

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 ...