With the rise of WebAssembly (wasm) it’s become easier than ever to run native code in a browser. As mostly just another platform to target, it would be remiss if Fortran was not a part of this effort ...

While recognizing that "Fortran 2015" has been in use for a while now, most of us feel that changing the name is a benefit in the long term. Also, as a side-effect of the discussion, the placeholder ...

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 ...

Fortran is the oldest commercial programming language, designed at IBM in the 1950s. And even though, for years, programmers have been predicting its demise, 64 years later it's still kicking, with ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...

67-year-programming language ranks in the top 10 of the Tiobe index of programming language popularity for two months running. Fortran’s return to the top 10 in Tiobe’s monthly index of language ...

1956: Fortran, the first modern computer language, is shared with the coding community for the first time. Three years in the making, it would be refined in work that continues to this day. While this ...

The two ‘dinosaur’ languages are competing for a top 10 spot in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. They’re still critical in legacy systems, Tiobe says. Older programming languages ...