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

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.

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.

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.

John Backus, known as the father of the Fortran computer programming language that made computers more accessible, died Saturday in Ashland, Ore., according to the International Business Machines ...

Invented in 1954, the world's first widely used high- level language is ' Fortran '. Despite the existence of a wide variety of programming languages, Martin D. Maas of the California ...

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.

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.

Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...