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John W. Backus, inventor of the Fortran language, dies. He is party responsible for the Backus-Naur Form, or what we normally call BNF. He also pushed the state of the art in functional programming, which I partly work on these days.  Thanks Mr. Backus, we owe you.

"R.I.P, John Backus" was given life on on Tuesday, March 20th, 2007 at 5:29 pm and, I think, categorized General.