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Wasn't that an awesome read Jerry ? I laughed when I read that. Fortran was the first programming language I worked with. Chuck -----Original Message----- From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:22 AM To: Midrange-L Subject: John Backus Just read that John Warner Backus died last Saturday: http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/20/obit.backus.ap/ . Ah, the ultimate programmer: Wrote a program to write programs because he was lazy!
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