From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: dave at horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2019 18:55:43 +1100 (EST)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus!
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1912031852160.99521@aneurin.horsfall.org>

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... 
Trivia: there is no way that FORTRAN can be described in any syntax; it is 
completely ad-hoc.

-- Dave