The Portland Group, a subsidiary of STMicroelectronics, announces the general availability of PGI Visual Fortran (PVF) Release 9.0 for Windows workstations, servers and clusters.

67-year-programming language ranks in the top 10 of the Tiobe index of programming language popularity for two months running.

Post-Fortran, Backus worked with Danish computer scientist Peter Naur to develop a notation to describe the structure of programming languages, dubbed the Backus-Naur form.