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 ...

According to the latest TIOBE Index, Python, C, and C++ are the three most popular programming languages among developers. Fortran, a compiled language originally created by IBM in 1957, is ...

John Backus: John Backus, known as the father of the Fortran computer-programming language that made computers more accessible, and a longtime IBM employee, died last Saturday in Ashland, Oregon ...

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 ...

While IBM’s engineer John Backus created FORTRAN as a critical early programming language in what IBM says was the “programmable” era, the company says its idea for the cognitive computing ...

Fortran, which emerged from IBM in the 1950s, remains popular in scientific computing. Its highest ranking on Tiobe's index was 10th in 2002. "This dinosaur is back in the top 20 after more than ...

Because once IBM's "cognitive computers" are a reality, they'll require a kind of programming that's far different than computers today, which still derive themselves from FORTRAN, a programming ...

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 in 1950 as a programmer was to ...