While recognizing that "Fortran 2015" has been in use for a while now, most of us feel that changing the name is a benefit in the long term. Also, as a side-effect of the discussion, the placeholder ...

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 ...

FORTRAN started out as IBM's' Mathematical Formula Translating System. It was designed by a team led by John Backus and targeted computationally intensive applications from physics to weather ...