Who is credited with creating the computer programming language Fortran?

The History of FORTRAN. FORTRAN was the world's first high-level programming language. It was developed at IBM by a small team led by John Backus. The earliest version of FORTRAN was released in 1957 as a programming tool for the IBM 704. read more

FORTRAN or formula translation was the first high-level programming language (software) invented by John Backus for IBM in 1954, and released commercially in 1957. Fortran is still used today for programming scientific and mathematical applications. read more

FORTRAN 66 marked a significant milestone in computer science. It was the first programming language to be defined by a formal standard. FORTRAN 77. Within only a few years, the shortcomings of FORTRAN 66 began to become apparent, especially by comparison with other programming languages such as C, Pascal and Algol. read more

F retains the array features added in Fortran 90, and removes control statements that were made obsolete by structured programming constructs added to both FORTRAN 77 and Fortran 90. F is described by its creators as "a compiled, structured, array programming language especially well suited to education and scientific computing". read more