Why FORTRAN Still Runs Science

Sixty-nine years on, Fortran is still top-ten on TIOBE and still what supercomputers speak — the resurrection story, legacy-modernisation talks, Dongarra's Turing lecture and an IBM 1401 that refuses to die.

Playlist by @birth_of_fortran

12 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. The IBM 1401 compiles and runs FORTRAN II — CuriousMarc
2. The Amazing Return of the FORTRAN Programming Language! — Dr Ganguli
3. They Wrote It in 1957. It Still Runs the World's Fastest Computers | Documentry Ocean — Documentry Ocean
4. Most Popular Programming Languages: Data from 1958 to 2025 — Data Is Beautiful
5. Working Effectively with Legacy Code • Michael Feathers & Christian Clausen • GOTO 2023 — GOTO Conferences
6. IWOMP 2025 Keynote III — Fortran is All You Need– Damian Rouson. LBNL — OpenMP
7. Replacing Legacy Fortran in a Hydroelectrical Critical System | Alain Marcotte | JuliaCon 2023 — The Julia Programming Language
8. libtrixi: Serving legacy Fortran codes with simulations in Julia | Geihe | JuliaCon 2024 — The Julia Programming Language
9. Generic approach to Legacy Fortran code porting on GPU — Applied Parallel Computing LLC
10. Why Fortran Runs Modern Supercomputers — Trent Slade
11. Ken Ross and Paul Laughton demo the IBM 1401 — Ken Ross
12. ACM A.M. Turing Award Lecture — SC Conference Series