Chad Clark's Open Journal : 2007-03-21

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March 21, 2007 :
1) John Backus dies at 82.

From http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software_development&articleId=9013821&taxonomyId=63&intsrc=kc_top

  John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream
  programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82.




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