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John Backus RIP
I guess I must be part of the "ungrateful peasant" generation of computer geeks... I never really liked FORTRAN. And now John Backus who led the team that developed it is dead . For me the elegance of other languages biased my view - but that's to miss the point: FORTRAN preceded them. And with all such pioneers elegance of form is often lacking. I did have some practical acquaintance with... [More]
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