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    1. 25th March 2007 #1
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      Attention John Backus ~ Fortran Inventor Has Died

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      The Inventor of the 'original' programming language Fortran, died this week at age 82.

      http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx.../insight_tech/

      Remarkable man and great foresight.

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      Default Re: John Backus ~ Fortran Inventor Has Died

      had a bloody good run then, think effectively an awful lot of people in the world have been touched by this guys work
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