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John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies

Started by martin_english · 10 months ago

from New York Times:
John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died on Saturday at his home in Ashland, Ore. He was 82.
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