Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Ok, you caught us. It certainly isn’t going to be the year of Algol. When you think of “old” programming languages, you ...

Oakville student Bana Maarouf says if she’s being honest, her work ethic at the start of high school left something to be desired. But then, in Grade 11, everything shifted — prompted by her school’s ...

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 ...

In 1958, McCarthy specified LISP, the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today (only Fortran is older by one year). The full form of Lisp is List Processing. Like Fortran, ...

Two programs for a vehicle dispatching model, one written in 7040 SIMSCRIPT and the other in 7040 FORTRAN IV are compared. The comparison is made in terms of basic program design decisions, storage ...

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 ...

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