List of Famous people with last name Naur

Peter Naur

First Name Peter

Last Name Naur

Born on October 25, 1928

Died on January 3, 2016 (aged 87)

Born in Kingdom of Denmark, Denmark, Capital Region of Denmark

Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. He is best known as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.

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