[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
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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