From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] In memoriam: John Backus
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 18:05:52 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190317010552.GF1493@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1903171159280.69634@aneurin.horsfall.org>
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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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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2019-03-17 1:02 Dave Horsfall
2019-03-17 1:05 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2019-03-17 2:16 ` Bakul Shah
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