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 ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

Ada 更是在航空航天、军工等高安全场景强势回春，虽然不如 Python、Java流行，但在对“出错零容忍”的系统中，Ada 是不可替代的老将。近年来，随着对系统安全性要求的提升，Ada 又逐渐“复兴”。

John Backus led the development Fortran, which was the first mainstream programming language and is still heavily influential today John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream ...

Programming Languages Fortran was popular for the same reason starving people value shoe leather Written by Paul Murphy, Contributor March 27, 2007, 5:15 p.m. PT ...

From the time when they used to be loaded into gargantuan machines via punchcards and tape to the present day, individual programming languages have always had their passionate advocates - and ...

Fortran was the first commercial programming language ever, and is gaining popularity thanks to the massive need for (scientific) number crunching. Welcome back Fortran," says Tiobe.

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