This is a tutorial which I wrote for Fortran 90 (and beyond). It was written to accompany a presentation which I did for younger students at my university. It is directed at an audience which already ...

Fortran was developed by a team at IBM in 1957 for scientific calculations. It is an extremely old programming language as a stance in 2019. The name Fortran stands for FORmula TRANslator. Since it is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Fortran is an old programming language, but it specializes in advanced calculations and may still be used in physics departments, supercomputer research institutes, government agencies, etc. as of ...

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 ...

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 ...