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...
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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...
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Christopher Backus is an American actor, director and screenwriter. Backus made his television debut in NBC's Will & Grace, followed by landing roles in...
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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...
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John Graham Backus (April 29, 1911 – October 28, 1988) was a Lithuanian American physicist and acoustician. John Backus was born and raised in Portland...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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an early compromise design soon superseded by ALGOL 60. According to John Backus: The Zurich ACM-GAMM Conference had two principal motives in proposing...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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IBM Research famous." These include Frances E. Allen, Marc Auslander, John Backus, Charles H. Bennett (computer scientist), Erich Bloch, Grady Booch, Fred...
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paradigms identified by John Backus in his work on programs as mathematical objects, the other being function-level programming. Backus originally used the...
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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...
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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...
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Malcolm Atterbury, 1926 – actor William Arrowsmith, 1941 – professor John Backus, 1942 – computer scientist; inventor of the FORTRAN computer language...
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John Backus Friedrich L. Bauer Hermann Bottenbruch Charles Katz Alan Perlis Heinz Rutishauser Klaus Samelson Joseph Henry Wegstein MAD Bruce Arden Bernard...
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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...
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Wayback Machine Bergstein, Brian (March 20, 2007). "Fortran creator John Backus dies". NBC News. Archived from the original on April 29, 2020. Retrieved...
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John Chester Backus (September 3, 1810 – April 8, 1884) was an American Presbyterian minister. Backus, son of Eleazer F. Backus, a retired wholesale bookseller...
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engine 1993: John Backus for his development of FORTRAN, the first widely used, general purpose, high-level computer language 1995: John R. Pierce and...
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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...
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and the lambda calculus, and proposed the ISWIM programming language. John Backus presented FP in his 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated...
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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...
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and had a profound effect on future language development. John Backus developed the Backus normal form method of describing programming languages specifically...
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but hindered the creation of complex programs. FORTRAN, developed by John Backus at International Business Machines (IBM) starting in 1954, was the first...
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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...
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