Fortran is still out there doing what it does best: crunching numbers. Here’s a promise. I’ll write up the first hacker who notifies Hackaday on the tip line that they created a Fortduino.

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 ...

Fortran was 1957, Lisp and COBOL were 1959, but COBOL isn’t still in common use (at least, nowhere near as common as lisp, and that’s saying something.

Golden Oldie’ Ada Hits Popularity Milestone Your email has been sent The programming language Ada rose to 9th place in the ...

There was already another Fortran compiler based on LLVM that is also called Flang, now known as Classic Flang. The Portland Group started work in 2009 and it went open source a decade ago, when ...

Fortran is the world's first high-level procedural programming language developed at IBM in the 1950's. It made programming accessible to the average human and is still used today for scientific ...

Fortran, beginning with F90, has the feel of a modern language. It continues to evolve and, with care and discrimination, adopt the most useful features from other languages.

FORTRAN 2003 added object class definitions with inheritance. IEEE floating point support was now standard. The VOLATILE attribute was added along with a range of data manipulation enhancements.

The issue is dedicated to Fortran creator John Backus and Ken Kennedy, pioneer of Fortran compiler optimization and parallelization. Both highly esteemed scientists died earlier this year. SUBSCRIBE ...

Fortran and Delphi are competing for a top 10 spot in the index, with Delphi/Object Pascal ranking 10th and Fortran 11th in the Tiobe index for March 2025, published March 10.