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 ...

HAMBURG, GERMANY: Sun Microsystems, Inc. today announced that Sun Studio 12 Update 1, a major upgrade to its software compiler and tools technology, is freely available for download. Sun Studio ...

Originally known as FORTRAN, but written in lower case since the 1990s with Fortran 90, this language was developed initially by John Backus as a way to make writing programs for the IBM 704 mainframe ...

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