From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: krewat@kilonet.net (Arthur Krewat)
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2018 20:26:18 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] RIP John Backus
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On 3/16/2018 8:08 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Dunno; I taught myself FORTRAN-II after winning a book at school (yes, 
> really!)

I taught myself Fortran after stealing a book from the library a few 
towns over. Returned it a few years later by dropping it in the book 
deposit.