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John Backus

  • O’Regan G
Springer London, (2013), 31-34
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_7
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John Backus was an American computer scientist and language designer. He made important contributions to the development of the Fortran programming language, and he also developed Backus-Naur Form (BNF), which is a widely used notation for expressing the syntax of a programming language.

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O’Regan, G. (2013). John Backus. In Giants of Computing (pp. 31–34). Springer London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_7

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