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.

FORTRAN (short for Formula Translation) is the world’s first high-level procedural programming language, created at IBM in the 1950s. It revolutionized coding by making it accessible to scientists and ...

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 ...

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

In some large systems, Fortran code can be responsible for 80-100% of the computation. It’s also incredibly easy to learn, as you’ll see with this short introduction to Fortran programming.

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 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 ...