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.

Post-Fortran, Backus worked with Danish computer scientist Peter Naur to develop a notation to describe the structure of programming languages, dubbed the Backus-Naur form.

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John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.

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John Backus led the development Fortran, which was the first mainstream programming language and is still heavily influential today John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.