The Record (Bergen County, NJ), March 21st, 2007
BRIAN BERGSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 03-21-2007
John Backus, at 82; inventor of Fortran By BRIAN BERGSTEIN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Date: 03-21-2007, Wednesday Section: LOCAL Edtion: All Editions Biographical: John Backus
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.
Mr. Backus died Saturday in Ashland, Ore., said IBM Corp., where he spent his career.
Before Fortran, computers had to be meticulously "hand-coded" — pro...
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