[TUHS] RIP John Backus
Dan Stromberg
drsalists at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 09:42:11 AEST 2018
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
> We lost computer pioneer John Backus on this day in 2007; amongst other
> things he gave us FORTRAN (yuck!) and BNF, which is ironic, really, because
> FORTRAN has no syntax to speak of.
FORTRAN isn't that bad. F77 had too much and too little whitespace
significance, but from what I've heard, F90 is pretty decent.
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