The two ‘dinosaur’ languages are competing for a top 10 spot in the Tiobe index of programming language popularity. They’re ...

Legacy programming languages remain vital in modern computing, evolving to stay relevant. Their deep-rooted role in critical ...

I learned to program FORTRAN IV in the spring of 1968 while working as an engineering technician in water resources. One of the engineers knew of my interest in computers and asked if I would like ...

There’s an old saying: “I don’t know what programming language scientists and engineers will use in the 22nd century, but I know it will be called FORTRAN.” FORTRAN was among the first ...

The latest iteration of the open-source driver stack features several additions, including SGLang, FlashAttention-2, and a Fortran Compiler. SGLang is a new runtime in ROCm 6.3 that purportedly ...

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 ...