Tuesday, March 20, 2007

John Backus, RIP

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Program BACKUSJW
*
* This program notes the passage of the creater of the
* Fortran Language
*
integer count
*
print*, 'John W. Backus, RIP'
print*, '1924-2007'
print*, ''
print*, 'Led the team that designed Fortan in 1954.'
print*, ''
print*, 'Server on the committees that design ALGOL.'
print*, ''
print*, 'Invented the first Function-level'
print*, 'programming language '
print*, ''
print*, 'Won the Turing award in 1977.'
*
do counter = 1, 15
print*", 'RIP'
enddo
*
end
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