In this video from the 2017 HPC Advisory Council Stanford Conference, Damian Rouson and Alessandro Fanfarillo present a Tutorial entitled “Towards Exascale Computing with Fortran 2015.” “The Fortran ...

If speed isn't an issue you could try Cygwin which comes with gcc which includes a fortran compiler. I mention speed because IMO apps running under cygwin are noticably slower than 'native' ones. And ...

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Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress. On Tuesday, the company quietly ...

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, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82. Backus died ...

John Backus, who died on 17 March, was a pioneer in the early development of computer programming languages, and was subsequently a leading researcher in so-called functional programming. He spent his ...