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John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He led 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 syntaxes of formal languages.
IBM has always provided its scientists the freedom to explore and discover solutions to society’s greatest problems. Backus is best known as the father of Fortran, the first widely used, high-level programming language that helped open the door to modern computing.
John Warner Backus (born Dec. 3, 1924, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died March 17, 2007, Ashland, Ore.) was an American computer scientist and mathematician who led the team that designed FORTRAN (formula translation), the first important algorithmic language for computers.
John Backus, Fortran’s primary author, described the process as “hand-to-hand combat with the machine,” with the machine often winning. The cost of programmers was usually at least as great as the cost of the computers, and programmers spent up to half their time debugging.
Apr 25, 2007 · John Backus, who died on 17 March, was a pioneer in the early development of computer programming languages, and was subsequently a leading researcher in so-called functional programming.
Sep 5, 2023 · John Backus. Pioneer in computer programming languages, IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University, 1950-52. New, July 2022, video of Backus's 34-minute address to the Los Alamos International History of Computing Conference, June 1976. Minute 4:40: SSEC ; 20:00: Fortran; 29:00: BNF ; 29: Q&A...
Mar 17, 2007 · John Backus. United States – 1977. CITATION. For profound, influential, and lasting contributions to the design of practical high-level programming systems, notably through his work on FORTRAN, and for seminal publication of formal procedures for the specification of programming languages. Short Annotated. Bibliography. ACM Turing Award. Lecture.
John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924–March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented the first widely used high-level programming language (FORTRAN) and was the inventor of the Backus-Naur form (BNF), the almost universally used notation to define formal language syntax.
John Backus, who died on 17 March, was a pioneer in the early development of computer programming languages, and was subsequently a leading researcher in so-called functional programming. He...
Mar 20, 2007 · John Backus, who assembled and led the IBM team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which helped open the door to modern computing, died Saturday at his home in ...
