[COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus!
Toby Thain
toby at telegraphics.com.au
Wed Dec 4 01:57:20 AEST 2019
On 2019-12-03 8:44 a.m., Clem Cole wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 2:56 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org
> <mailto:dave at horsfall.org>> wrote:
>
> As every computer programmer should know, John Backus was emitted in
> 1924; he
> gave us the BNF syntax, but the sod also gave us that FORTRAN
> obscenity...
>
> Be careful, Fortran still pays a lot of bills
We do this back and forth EVERY YEAR, guys.
--Toby
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