From: cym224@gmail.com (Nemo)
Subject: [TUHS] RIP John Backus
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 21:57:19 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJfiPzz-o8yw+FmwF-LvvkTSpzUvzobxAyqOw8CHjbCkjtKsLw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1803170848420.819@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On 16/03/2018, 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.
Early on, I landed a job requiring VAX FORTRAN but I was not actually
conversant in it -- I told a white lie. I saw "FORTRAN Tools for
VAX/VMS" at a local technical store and read it cover to cover. (The
title was an intentional play on Kernighan & Plauger and built similar
tools using FORTRAN -- side topic but whatever happened to Plauger?)
Said implementation pleasantly surprised me: nothing at all like the
primitive early versions.
N.
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-17 1:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-16 21:52 Dave Horsfall
2018-03-16 23:42 ` Dan Stromberg
2018-03-17 0:08 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-17 0:26 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-17 0:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2018-03-17 1:40 ` Charles H Sauer
2018-03-17 1:57 ` Nemo [this message]
2018-03-17 7:20 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-17 13:43 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-17 17:06 ` Steve Simon
2018-03-17 19:15 ` Pierre DAVID
2018-03-17 19:41 ` Charles Anthony
2018-03-18 11:02 ` Steve Simon
2018-03-17 19:22 ` Tim Bradshaw
2018-03-17 19:28 ` Mike Markowski
2018-03-18 18:51 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-18 21:07 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-19 14:50 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-19 15:43 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-19 15:46 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-19 17:39 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-19 17:43 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-19 18:16 ` Steve Nickolas
2018-03-19 17:48 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-19 17:59 ` Jon Forrest
2018-03-19 18:40 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo
2018-03-19 19:40 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-19 15:55 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-19 16:58 ` [TUHS] FORTRAN Steve Johnson
2018-03-19 17:32 ` Jon Forrest
2018-03-20 17:42 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 17:47 ` George Michaelson
2018-03-19 18:47 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-20 18:15 ` Dan Cross
2018-03-20 19:55 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-20 20:21 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-20 20:27 ` Warner Losh
2018-03-21 8:10 ` Peter Jeremy
2018-03-21 20:56 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-21 21:15 ` Dennis Boone
2018-03-20 21:36 ` Clem Cole
2018-03-20 21:59 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-20 23:00 ` Bakul Shah
2018-03-21 13:48 ` Paul Winalski
2018-03-21 20:55 ` Ron Natalie
2018-03-18 21:26 ` [TUHS] RIP John Backus Tim Bradshaw
2018-03-19 0:26 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-19 14:26 ` Warner Losh
[not found] <mailman.17.1521243734.3788.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-03-17 14:47 ` Paul McJones
2018-03-17 15:54 ` Dave Horsfall
[not found] <mailman.19.1521302091.3788.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-03-17 17:49 ` Paul McJones
2018-03-17 18:52 ` Arthur Krewat
2018-03-18 3:39 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2018-03-18 7:35 ` Otto Moerbeek
[not found] <mailman.21.1521314548.3788.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2018-03-17 20:01 ` Paul McJones
2018-03-17 20:14 ` Paul McJones
2018-03-17 22:27 ` Steve Johnson
2018-03-18 13:33 Noel Chiappa
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