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. Subscribe to ...

I'm relatively new to coding and had a question that I was hoping some one might know the answer to. I recently been trying to get a legacy fortran code to compile and run on a mac terminal. I have ...

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 ...

Advances in science and engineering still rely on Fortran more than any other language by many important measures. Surprised? You shouldn’t be, although many people who call themselves programmers ...

GPU accelerated supercomputing is not a new phenomenon with many high performance computing codes already primed to run on Nvidia hardware in particular. However, for some legacy codes with special ...

With the best of intentions, a process control engineer rewrites some crappy Fortran codeonly to apparently make things worseThe year 1969 was still in the very early days of computerized ...