[plt-scheme] Fwd: [Haskell] NYTimes.com: John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies

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Date: Mar 20, 2007 6:55 AM
Subject: [Haskell] NYTimes.com: John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies
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John Backus, inventor of Fortran, Turing Award winner, and also an early
pioneer in functional programming, died Saturday at his home in Oregon. Many
of us have fond memories of him in the earlier days of our careers, and we
all owe a lot to him for giving credibility to functional programming
through his Turing Award lecture, "Can Programming Be Libarated From the von
Neumann style?" Here is an article from the New York Times.

 * BUSINESS *   | March 20, 2007
 * John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html?ex=1175054400&en=d76ca10764a7769f&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
*
 By STEVE LOHR
 Mr. Backus assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the
first widely used programming language.

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