Tuesday, March 20, 2007

R.I.P. John W. Backus

John W. Backus, inventor of FORTRAN, died Saturday, March 17. The NYT obit is here. I learned FORTRAN in the 70's and always did like it. Of course, I've forgotten it all now, but I still have that cool book mark.

HT: BoingBoing

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