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John Backus, American computer scientist, led the team that developed FORTRAN (died 2007)
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John Backus
American computer scientist
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He led the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define syntaxes of formal languages.…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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