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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. His lifelong mission after joining IBM Corp. in 1950 as a programmer was ...

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.

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

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 ...