Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainframe ...

Absoft Corp. announced at this week’s Supercomputing 2004 Conference the release of new tools for its IBM XL Fortran Advanced Edition and IBM XL C/C++ Advanced Edition compilers running on Mac OS X.

FORTRAN started out as IBM's' Mathematical Formula Translating System. It was designed by a team led by John Backus and targeted computationally intensive applications from physics to weather ...

“I don't know what the language of the year 2000 will look like, but I know it will be called Fortran.” —Tony Hoare, winner of the 1980 Turing Award, in 1982. Take a tour through the research ...