[geeks] RIP John Backus

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/03/20 Tue AM 08:49:18 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: [geeks] RIP John Backus

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>http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/20cnd-backus.html

Peter Naur appears to still be with us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Naur

I remember the effect of the BNF representation of Pascal in the Original Users Guide by Niklaus Wirth had on me as a youth - it fascinated me and got me to thinking beyond mere syntax and command structure in programming...

BNF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backus-Naur_form

Lionel