John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM in 1950 as a programmer was to work on ...

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John W Backus, the creator of the Fortran programming language died at his home in Oregon this past Saturday. Backus was 82. Backus led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran in the late 1950s, which ...

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. Backus died ...

Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...

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