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Re: creator of Fortran goes back to the source ..

After takin' a swig o' grog, Roy Schestowitz belched out this bit o' wisdom:

> __/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 31 March 2007 15:57 \__
>
>> 'Those of us who write or even use computer programs owe a big debt of
>> gratitude to John Warner Backus who recently passed away on March 17,
>> 2007 at the age of 82. While writing code is still a complex process, it
>> is much faster and easier than in the days prior to Backus' development
>> of the computer programming language known as Fortran in the early 1950s'
>> 
>> http://hubpages.com/hub/Death_of_Computer_Pioneer_John_Backus
>
> It doesn't just go back on to the source, but it also immortalised and
> resurrected by it.
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | As much as Sun Microsystems Inc is hoping that its newly open 
> | sourced Fortress programming language will replace Fortran for
> | parallel applications, the odds don't favor it. Fortran has a
> | way of adapting and surviving.
> `----

Cool!

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