Computing pioneer Backus dies

[Spydermag68]

John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82.

 

[amdhunter]

This guy paved the way for me to make this post on ATOT? :beer: for him,

for his memory.

 

[j00fek]

 

[funboy6942]

100010101001011001101010010101 :brokenheart:

 

[tfinch2]

BNF haunts me though.

 

[eplebnista]

 

[IronWing]

CLOSE (UNIT=John, IOSTAT= :brokenheart: )

 

[Linflas]

RIP John.

I pretty much spent the 1980's working with FORTRAN 77 and it was amazing the things you could do with it given its simplicity.