Famous Nerds #18 (cont)
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John Backus
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- Early 1940's, failed chemistry student
- 1943, joined army, medical training
- Dropped out, bone tumor in skull
- Mid 1940's, mathematics student
- 1949 joined IBM (computer operator)
- 1953 proposed programming "language"
- 1954 FORTRAN released
- 1959 Backus-Naur syntax formalism
- 1977 Turing Award
- Award Speech inspired new FP research
(leading to e.g. Haskell)
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