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 work on ...

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In this video from the 2017 HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference, Damian Rouson and Alessandro Fanfarillo present a Tutorial entitled “Towards Exascale Computing with Fortran 2015.” “The Fortran ...

John W Backus, the creator of the Fortran programming language died at his home in Oregon this past Saturday. Backus was 82. Backus led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran in the late 1950s, which ...