John Backus
American computer scientist (1924–2007) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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John Warner Backus (December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007) was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language. He was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF).[1]
He received the National Medal of Science in 1975[2] and the 1977 ACM Turing Award.[3]
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