John Backus passes away...

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Ethan Dicks wrote:
>> I am just old enough to have been paid to program in FORTRAN, but I'm
>> really glad I didn't have to do much of it.  Besides lifting
>> programming out of its primordial foundations, John Backus gave us the
>> platform from which ADVENT sprang.  No disrepect to Grace Hopper
>> intended, but can you imagine trying to write a text adventure in
>> COBOL?
> 
> A REAL programmer can write a FORTRAN program in any language

Nope, real programmers write in binary.

http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/tech/computers/TheHackersDictionaryofComputerJargon/chap63.html

Peace...  Sridhar