庆祝福兰70周年

庆祝福兰70周年
Celebrating 70 Years of Fortran

原始链接: https://fortran-lang.org/news/2026/09-15-Fortran-birthday/

为纪念第一本Fortran手册出版70周年（10月15日），剑桥计算气候研究所将于2026年12月1日在曼彻斯特的科学与工业博物馆举办‘庆祝Fortran 70周年’活动。本次活动将包括拉伦斯伯克利国家实验室的Damian Rouson的主题演讲、关于当前创新的闪电讲座，以及展望Fortran未来七十年的分组讨论。晚上的酒会将包括‘Baby’计算机的演示。入场免费，提供现场和Zoom两种参与方式；报名截止日期为2026年11月9日。欢迎投稿闪电讲座、海报以及分组讨论主题。完整详情和报名请访问活动网页和CAKE网站。

Hacker News 用户通过回顾其历史与持续使用来庆祝 Fortran 70 周年。评论者回忆了在大型机和微型计算机上学习早期 FORTRAN 的经历、它起源于公式导向编程，以及它在科学、工程、核能、航空航天和地球物理计算中的作用。许多人指出，现代 Fortran（F90+）要好得多，且在数值计算中仍保持高速，而 FORTRAN 77 的遗留代码库在学术界和工业界仍大量存在。用户们讨论了历史特性——短变量名、COMMON 块、GOTO 语句、Hollerith 字符串、打孔卡列限制——以及 Fortran 对后续语言和数值库（如支撑大量 Python 数据科学栈的 BLAS/LAPACK）的影响。其他用户还争论了 Fortran 在数组密集型代码中是否仍优于 C，以及它是否仍然是领域专家的最佳选择。总体而言，该讨论串将 Fortran 描绘为一座历史里程碑，同时也是高性能数值计算中仍然相关的工具。

原文

Joe Wallwork, Institute of Computing for Climate Science, University of Cambridge, [email protected]

One month from today (15th October) marks seventy years since the first Fortran manual was published, making it an extremely well established programming language for scientific computing.

Over Fortran’s seven decades of usage, it has supported critical infrastructure and technological advances in a range of scientific fields such as nuclear engineering, weather and climate forecasting, and materials science. Fortran continues to be the go-to language in these domains and others.

To celebrate Fortran’s outstanding contributions to advancing science and engineering, the Institute of Computing for Climate Science (ICCS) will be hosting a ‘Celebrating 70 years of Fortran’ event at the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester, United Kingdom, on 1st December 2026.

Workshop outline

The main workshop will be held from 14:30-18:15 in the museum conference suite and will be followed by an evening drinks reception in the exhibition hall (including a demonstration of the 1940’s experimental computer, ‘Baby’).

The workshop will take the form of a retrospective, with a keynote address from Damian Rouson, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory looking back on how far Fortran has come in the past 70 years, lightning talks about the current exciting developments and community initiatives right now, and an open breakout discussion looking forward to the next 70 years. There are opportunities to submit lightning talks and posters, as well as to propose breakout discussion topics.

Registration

Attendance is free of charge, thanks to the support of our funders and sponsors.

To register, complete the following form: https://forms.gle/NjXfManJWmwLX7sc7.

Whilst it will be a primarily in-person event, there will also be an option to join remotely via Zoom.

Registration will close on 9th November 2026.

Further information

See the event webpage for all further details about the event, including the full programme and instructions on how to submit lightning talks and posters.

This blog post was also published on the CAKE website at https://www.cake.ac.uk/news/fortran-birthday/.