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 ...

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 Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was to ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved ...