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From: Linda Rising <risingl1 AT cox.net>
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Subject: [patterns-discussion] John Backus dies.....
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:49:04 -0700
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John Backus was involved in the development of the FORTRAN programming language and the
Backus-Naur form, but he also is famous for saying that we should learn from failure. His death marks the end of an
important era in software development. He was 82.

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9013821&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1 <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9013821&source=NLT_AM&nlid=1>

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