[geeks] John Backus died today at 82

[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

Tue, 20 Mar 2007 @ 13:27 -0500, Bill Bradford said:

> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 01:50:07PM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:
> > In case anyone cares...
> > John Backus, inventor of FORTRAN, died today at age 82.
> 
> He actually died 2-3 days ago, as detailed in a message to this list
> earlier today.

Well, my only excuse is that story said it was today, but nobody would
ever believe me if I said the news media screwed up.

:)




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