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 ...

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 ...

The National Labs are using a new tool to integrate the 1950s-era Fortran computer language into their supercomputing infrastructure. The Fortran language, a relic of the punchcard era of programming, ...

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 ...

(reg. requ'd). for John Backus, who invented the Fortran computer programming language in the 1950s. IBM says he died Saturday at age 82 in Ashland, where he lived. From the obit: In that last comment ...