17 Mar
2019
17 Mar
'19
7:05 a.m.
Fortran is sort of yucky but as Clem has said, it continues to pay the bills.
That's some staying power.
I am with you that it is ironic that he gave us BNF as well. One wonders
if he did that as a result of doing Fortran.
On Sun, Mar 17, 2019 at 12:02:39PM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
We lost computer pioneer John Backus on this day in
2007; amongst other
things he gave us FORTRAN (yuck!) and BNF, which is ironic, really, because
FORTRAN has no syntax to speak of.
-- Dave
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