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

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM in 1950 as a programmer was to ...

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed the way people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, 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 Institute of ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM in 1950 as a programmer was to ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM in 1950 as a programmer was to ...