John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

Fortran was adopted very quickly and became the programming language of choice for the engineering and scientific communities for many years and is still in use today. The influence of the compiler ...

Fortran is an old programming language, but it specializes in advanced calculations and may still be used in physics departments ...

Fortran was adopted very quickly and became the programming language of choice for the engineering and scientific communities for many years and is still in use today. The influence of the compiler ...

Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just spring up […] ...

John Backus, 82, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers ...

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