Computing pioneer John Backus dies
Sad news today:
(AP) -- 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.
posted by Smashed at 3/21/2007 06:59:00 AM
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Very sad news!
How are you doing? Long time-no blog over here.
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Oh, I'm doing OK...
I've been over to RoD recently - I saw that you had a couple of posts up - but haven't exactly had the time to comment. Busy, busy.
And you?
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