[opensuse] John Backus Dead at 82

        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. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org