Fortran developer John Backus dies

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 21, 2007 8:57 PM EDT
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Another founder of modern computing passes away. John W Backus, team leader of the original FORTRAN development team at IBM, died on 17 March at the respectable age of 82.

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