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Sun unveils Fortress as replacement for FortranSun Microsystems has unveiled a new open-source programming language for high-performance computing to replace the established Fortran language, originally laun...News Date: 14:25 15 Jan 2007
Reminiscences of FortranWith the passing of John Backus it's timely to look back at the origins and early development of Fortran and it's effects on our profession. These are some of my personal reminiscences, colored by my own backgr...News
Fortran: A few historical detailsIn 1954 computing history was made when an IBM team lead by John Backus produced Fortran, the first high-level programming language. Because its competition was with assembly languages, efficiency was a primary...News
White paper: Intel® Array VisualiserIntel Array Visualizer provides a complete set of software tools to view and graph array data. This technology offers advanced data visualization techniques that allow you to expose hidden patterns in large mul...Whitepapers Date: 17:20 19 Nov 2009
Hot skills: The number-cruncherFortran may be old, but it is far from finished, writes Nick Langley. What is it? A language used for scientific and mathematical computing. Though limited in many ways, it is faster than upstarts like C and C+...In Depth Date: 11:28 28 Nov 2002
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FORTRAN: Calling All Dinosaurs!DO you PROGRAM FORTRAN? IF so, READ on.Please ASSIGN some time to RECORD your opinions about current and future FORTRAN needs in ournon-COMPLEX online survey. It is inyour INTRINSIC self-interest to PAUSE and D...Blog Source: blogs.sun.com Date: 15:02 18 Jun 2009
Passages: John W. Backus - Inventor of Fortran - SiteProNews BlogThe man who led the team that developed the first high-level computer programming language, Fortran died at age 82 today. John W. Backus worked for IBM for most of his adult life. In 1952 while struggling with ...Blog
F#: Starting anew, why F# and not FORTRANWhy FORTRAN and not F#? FORTRAN works well, has a strong history and none of that nasty object oriented nonsense. F# works well, based on OCAML, and supports object oriented nonsense How about F# and FORTRAN? C...Blog Source: blogs.msdn.com
Petzold Book Blog - FORTRANIn 1971 I graduated high school and in the fall moved into a dormitory at Stevens Institute of Technology, a small but well-regarded engineering and science college in Hoboken, N.J. overlooking the Hudson River...Blog