[TUHS] RIP John Backus

[Dave Horsfall]

On Fri, 16 Mar 2018, Arthur Krewat wrote:

> I taught myself Fortran after stealing a book from the library a few 
> towns over. Returned it a few years later by dropping it in the book 
> deposit.

I forgot to mention that the other book I won (apparently I topped my 
school in Science or something, and could pick two books from a list) was 
"Business Data Processing", so I taught myself simple COBOL :-)

I lost both books in a house move, alas...

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Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will suffer."