John Backus

John Backus
John Backus

John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?

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Male
Date of Birth
December 3rd, 1924
Age
100
Birth Place
United States of America, Pennsylvania
Date of Death
March 17th, 2007
Died Aged
82
Star Sign
Sagittarius
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