He was also the Backus in Backus-Naur Form (BNF).
On Tue, 2007-03-20 at 11:40 -0400, Michael Short wrote: > There is an article in the New York Times that John Backus, the lead > developer of FORTRAN, has died at the age of 82. Seems like the end of > era of the early developers. It would be interesting to think what > computing would be like today without some of their works.
