“因为我有点懒，” 巴克斯在1979年接受采访时风趣地说，“我不喜欢写程序，所以当我在IBM701上编写计算导弹弹道的程序时，就开始琢磨开发一个编程系统，可以让编程变得简单些。” 于是，FORTRAN应运而生。 1954年9月20日，FORTRAN（Formula Translating，公式翻译 ...

Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress. On Tuesday, the company quietly ...

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 Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was to ...

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 ...

If speed isn't an issue you could try Cygwin which comes with gcc which includes a fortran compiler. I mention speed because IMO apps running under cygwin are noticably slower than 'native' ones. And ...

Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, digital photography, AI, quantum computing, computer science, materials science, supercomputers, drones, browsers, 3D ...

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 ...