Tuesday, March 20, 2007

John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN, dead at 82

John Backus, inventor of the FORTRAN programming language, just died at the age of 82. The very, very first program I ever wrote was in FORTRAN, on Hollerith cards. The obit is here: here.

Posted by Timothy Chen Allen at 5:41 PM

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