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RE: John Backus

Wasn't that an awesome read Jerry ? I laughed when I read that. Fortran was
the first programming language I worked with.

Chuck

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 10:22 AM
To: Midrange-L
Subject: John Backus

Just read that John Warner Backus died last Saturday: 
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/20/obit.backus.ap/ .

Ah, the ultimate programmer: Wrote a program to write programs because 
he was lazy!

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