John Warner Backus

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sclytrack wrote:
> John Warner Backus died on March 17, 2007.
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Backus

I'm actually kind of saddened by this.  It's hard to see someone so influential in this field go.

FWIW, he had one heck of a sendoff over on slashdot and digg:

http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/0223234
http://www.digg.com/programming/John_W_Backus_82_Fortran_Developer_Dies

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