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JOHN BACKUS ; Inventor of Fortran
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For a three-year period in 1954-57, John Backus, a mathematician
in his early thirties, led the IBM Fortran project. Fortran was a
new programming language that enabled programs to be written
compactly in English and mathematical symbols instead of the binary-
oriented machine language that computers understood.
It was not the first programming language, but its predecessors
produced very inefficient programs. Fortran, however, produced
programs that were as good as those written by h...
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