When the FORTRAN programming language debuted in 1957, it transformed how scientists and engineers programmed computers. Complex calculations could suddenly be expressed in concise, math-like notation ...

An oft-mentioned advantage of ALGOL over FORTRAN is the recursion capability of the former. FORTRAN adherents often belittle this advantage by claiming that all recursive relations can be reduced to ...

This course teaches the basics of modern Fortran programming in astrophysics, version control with Git, debugging, and code parallelisation with OpenMP and MPI. no final exam, but two equally weighted ...

Ada, a programming language born in the late 70s, has managed to break into the top 10 of the TIOBE Index for July 2025. The sudden return of this old-timer has developers debating whether it’s a ...

ABSTRACT: We make more specific initial contributions of prior work w.r.t. Tokamaks, relic black holes, and a relationship between a massive graviton particle count and quantum number n, and also add ...

READING AID. A college student conducts reading tutorial for students in Samar province in this undated photo. The Department of Social Welfare and Development has partnered with more schools in ...

HELPING READERS. A college student teaching children to read in Samar province in this undated photo. The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) regional office here is expanding the ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

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Last fall, Eric Klopfer decided to conduct an experiment in his undergraduate computer science class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He divided the class into three groups and gave ...

Old Glories: Fortran and Cobol are still among the world's most popular programming languages despite being almost 70 years old. They're certainly overachieving, but for entirely different reasons, ...