Divers and Sundry
various and assorted miscellany
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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