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March 21, 2007

RIP: John Backus

Found this code fragment in the comments over at Slashdot:

PROGRAM FAREWELL_JOHN
IMPLICIT NONE
 
PRINT *, 'Farewell John W. Backus'
 
STOP
END

I have actually completely forgotten Fortran but I can still remember struggling with BNF grammers (Backus is the B in BNF).

Posted by Ozguru at March 21, 2007 07:00 AM