John Warner Backus

Wed Mar 21 17:45:30 PDT 2007

Pragma wrote:

> 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
> 

Reading the slashdot freakshow this PDF got me thinking a bit about where we
(and D) are going...

http://www.st.cs.uni-sb.de/edu/seminare/2005/advanced-fp/docs/sweeny.pdf