From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: toby at telegraphics.com.au (Toby Thain)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 10:57:20 -0500
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus!
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On 2019-12-03 8:44 a.m., Clem Cole wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 2:56 AM Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org
> <mailto:dave at horsfall.org>> wrote:
> 
>     As every computer programmer should know, John Backus was emitted in
>     1924; he
>     gave us the BNF syntax, but the sod also gave us that FORTRAN
>     obscenity...
> 
> Be careful, Fortran still pays a lot of bills 


We do this back and forth EVERY YEAR, guys.

--Toby