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 in 1950 as a programmer was to work on ...

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 in 1950 as a programmer was to work on ...

Fortran is an old programming language, but it specializes in advanced calculations and may still be used in physics departments, supercomputer research institutes, government agencies, etc. as of ...

Objective-C, the programming language superseded by Apple's Swift for iOS and macOS app development, has finally dropped off the top 20 most popular languages, according to the April 2021 edition of ...

Python looks set to clinch the Language of the Year award for 2024, maintaining its lead in the December TIOBE Programming Community Index, while Fortran’s steady ascent highlighted a quiet month in ...

Perhaps rather unexpectedly, on the 14th of March this year the GCC mailing list received an announcement regarding the release of the first ever COBOL front-end for the GCC compiler. For the ...

March 2025 TIOBE Index: Legacy ‘Dinosaur’ Languages Are Making a Comeback Your email has been sent Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their ...