John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...

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John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

John Backus led the development Fortran, which was the first mainstream programming language and is still heavily influential today John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream ...