Generally considered to be the first general-purpose programming language, FORTRAN (which later dropped ... Verbose and clunky, the famous Dutch computer scientist Edsger Dijkstra said of it ...

This was the days of big iron when the term computer meant a room full ... Additionally, Fortran is a niche language and I mean that in a positive sense. Where Fortran is used, it is the language ...

We had a lot of people comment on my recent Hackaday article, “This Is Not Your Father’s FORTRAN”, who studied the language at some point. Maybe one of you would like to apply?

At the time, Fortran, developed by International Business Machines Corp., was the dominant language of computer programming. “We looked at languages and we both decided that the languages ...

The analyst brought up the example of the high-level computer programming language Fortran which was immensely popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Remember Fortran? Who Uses It Now? “Fortran was ...