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 ...

The weary cliche 'old is gold' doesn't find much truck with IT industry people, who believe that anything that is in production is already obsolete because something newer is already making its way ...

Back in the dawn of time, which is four decades ago in computer science and which was before technical computing went mainstream with the advent of Unix workstations and their beefy server cousins, ...

In this video from the GPU Technology Conference, Michael Wolfe from The Portland Group presents: OpenACC for Fortran Programmers. Learn how to program NVIDIA GPUs using Fortran with OpenACC ...

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To fill the void in Mac Fortran programmer tools, Nocturnal Aviation Software has announced FTranProjectBuilder, its Mac-native development environment and project manager, designed to speed up and ...

Fortran 90 made things more difficult for the compilers but the pointers contain more information than C or C++ pointers so the compilers can do more aggressive optimizations. There are also some ...

As major financial institutions go through their modernisation programs, the battle for skills has intensified. Corporate Australia and government agencies are big users of Cobol on mainframes, for ...

Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming language called Fortress. On Tuesday, the company quietly ...