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John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies
By Martin English | March 21, 2007
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.
Backus was also the developer, with Peter Naur, of the Backus-Naur Form or BNF, the metaprogramming notation that is used to formally specify programming languages, networking protocols, and file formats.
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