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Mar. 20th, 2007 03:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prowler1971Computing pioneer John Backus dies
Backus' will is currently be converted from punch card format.
(AP) -- 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' will is currently be converted from punch card format.
