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John Backus (1924–2007)
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Inventor of science's most widespread programming language, Fortran.
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Martin Campbell-Kelly is in the Department of Computer Science, Warwick University, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK. m.campbell-kelly@warwick.ac.uk,
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Campbell-Kelly, M. John Backus (1924–2007).Nature446, 998 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/446998a
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