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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M Harris
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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
