Ganesh Swami

John Backus died on Saturday. He was the father of FORTRAN, Turing Award winner, and one of the names behind the Backus-Naur form (Peter Naur, 2005 Turing Award winner, was the other).

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His Turing Award lecture is also a remarkable read. Titled, “Can programming be liberated from the Von Neumann style,” it laid the groundwork for functional programming…

(via Geomblog)

Possibly related:

• The Perks
• Impact Awards
• Another Week
• SIGGRAPH 07
• Documentation Love

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