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, ...

The Fortran programming language underlies services ranging from weather prediction to supercomputing. Despite its long history and continued popularity, the language has had no rules to guide the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Corp ...