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Computing pioneer John Backus dies
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/03/20/obit.backus.ap/index.html...
Submitted by jobless 63 months, 5 days, 5 hours ago
John Backus, whose development of the Fortran programming language in the 1950s changed how people interacted with computers and paved the way for modern software, has died. He was 82.
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