__/ [ Doug Mentohl ] on Saturday 31 March 2007 15:57 \__
> 'Those of us who write or even use computer programs owe a big debt of
> gratitude to John Warner Backus who recently passed away on March 17,
> 2007 at the age of 82. While writing code is still a complex process, it
> is much faster and easier than in the days prior to Backus' development
> of the computer programming language known as Fortran in the early 1950s'
>
> http://hubpages.com/hub/Death_of_Computer_Pioneer_John_Backus
It doesn't just go back on to the source, but it also immortalised and
resurrected by it.
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| As much as Sun Microsystems Inc is hoping that its newly open
| sourced Fortress programming language will replace Fortran for
| parallel applications, the odds don't favor it. Fortran has a
| way of adapting and surviving.
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http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=64F3D8C0-23EB-407D-BF45-2A48E6E83993
http://tinyurl.com/2ghyr5
Sun's Fortran replacement goes open-source
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| Sun Microsystems took a new open-source step this week, enlisting the
| outside world's help in an attempt to create a brand-new programming
| language called Fortress.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-6150063.html
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