From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: drsalists@gmail.com (Dan Stromberg)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 16:42:11 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] RIP John Backus
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 2:52 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> 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.

FORTRAN isn't that bad.  F77 had too much and too little whitespace
significance, but from what I've heard, F90 is pretty decent.