[opensuse] John Backus Dead at 82

[M Harris]

John Backus died today. He is the programmer in the 1950's who 
pioneered high level programming languages by inventing the Fortran language 
for the IBM 701.

He was 82.


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Re: [opensuse] John Backus Dead at 82

[Randall R Schulz]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 14:15, M Harris wrote:
 John Backus died today. He is the programmer in the 1950's
 who pioneered high level programming languages by inventing the
 Fortran language for the IBM 701.

More importantly (arguably), he gave us the notation we use to describe 
virtually all computer languages (and not just programming languages, 
but everything whose form is sequential and governed by rules that must 
be formalized and whose recognition / validation automated), the 
so-called Backus-Naur form.


 He was 82.
 ...
 M Harris


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