John Backus

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  • San Francisco, CA, United States
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John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led 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. He also did research in function-level programming and helped to popularize it. The IEEE awarded Backus the W.W. McDowell Award in 1967 for the development of FORTRAN. Wikipedia
Also known as:
John W. Backus
Born:
1924
Died:
2007
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  • About BNF notation

    BNF is an acronym for "Backus Naur Form".
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  • The FL project

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  • IBM Archives: John Backus

    John Backus was the developer of FORTRAN, for years one of the best known and most used programming systems in the world.
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  • stanford.edu

    www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf

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