John Backus passes away...

[Fred Cisin]

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