of programming languages". John Backus retired in 1991. He died at his home in Ashland, Oregon on March 17, 2007. Backus was born in Philadelphia and...

It was developed by John Backus and Peter Naur. BNF can be described as a metasyntax notation for context-free grammars. Backus–Naur form is applied...

Christopher Backus is an American actor, director and screenwriter. Backus made his television debut in NBC's Will & Grace, followed by landing roles in...

include: A. E. Backus (1909–1990), American artist Azel Backus (1765–1816), first President of Hamilton College in New York Billy Backus (born 1943), former...

John Graham Backus (April 29, 1911 – October 28, 1988) was a Lithuanian American physicist and acoustician. John Backus was born and raised in Portland...

manual appeared in 1956, but first developed in 1954) by a team led by John Backus at IBM. During 1842–1849, Ada Lovelace translated the memoir of Italian...

the only son of Russell Gould Backus and Daisy Taylor (née Gilmore) Backus. His older sister was Katherine Jane Backus. He attended Shaw High School in...

calculus paradigm, and not the function-level paradigm Backus had hoped. In his Turing award paper, Backus described how the FP style is different: An FP system...

ISBN 0-387-98269-8. LCCN 98-16911. SPIN 10693423. Backus, John W. (2006-09-05). Booch, Grady (ed.). "Oral History of John Backus" (PDF). Reference number: X3715.2007...

an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL 60. According to John Backus: The Zurich ACM-GAMM Conference had two principal motives in proposing...

by John Backus in his work on programs as mathematical objects, the other being value-level programming. In his 1977 Turing Award lecture, Backus set...

Center by John Backus, John Williams, and Edward Wimmers in the 1980s and documented in a report from 1989. FL was designed as a successor of Backus' earlier...

Turing award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most...

with initial caps since Fortran 90.[citation needed] In late 1953, John W. Backus submitted a proposal to his superiors at IBM to develop a more practical...

paradigms identified by John Backus in his work on programs as mathematical objects, the other being function-level programming. Backus originally used the...

IBM Research famous." These include Frances E. Allen, Marc Auslander, John Backus, Charles H. Bennett (computer scientist), Erich Bloch, Grady Booch, Fred...

large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. Designed by John Backus and Gene Amdahl, it was the first mass-produced computer with hardware...

rules called a grammar. Backus–Naur form (BNF) describes the syntax of "sentences" of a language. It was developed by John Backus and used for the syntax...

Malcolm Atterbury, 1926 – actor William Arrowsmith, 1941 – professor John Backus, 1942 – computer scientist; inventor of the FORTRAN computer language...

John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...

Wayback Machine Bergstein, Brian (March 20, 2007). "Fortran creator John Backus dies". NBC News. Archived from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved...

engine 1993: John Backus for his development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language 1995: John R. Pierce and...

John Chester Backus (September 3, 1810 – April 8, 1884) was an American Presbyterian minister. Backus, son of Eleazer F. Backus, a retired wholesale bookseller...

of the ACM. 21 (8): 613–641. doi:10.1145/359576.359579. Grady Booch. "John Backus - A.M. Turing Award Laureate". Association for Computing Machinery. Archived...

John McCarthy (September 4, 1927 – October 24, 2011) was an American computer scientist and cognitive scientist. He was one of the founders of the discipline...

the Age of New Media. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-1421424347. Fulton, Scott M. III (March 20, 2007). "John W. Backus (1924–2007)". BetaNews...

and the lambda calculus, and proposed the ISWIM programming language. John Backus presented FP in his 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated...

von Neumann bottleneck was described by John Backus in his 1977 ACM Turing Award lecture. According to Backus: Surely there must be a less primitive way...

SORT/MERGE 1952 COMPOOL RAND/SDC none (unique language) 1953 Speedcoding John W. Backus none (unique language) 1953 READ/PRINT Don Harroff, James Fishman, George...

crew member Henry Hubbard, who also identified the model for Pip: John Backus, a little black man added to the crew during the voyage. Hubbard witnessed...