Backus was one of the greatest personal to change the way of programming with the invention of Fortran. He passed away at the age of 82 serving the call of destiny. May he find peace in his journey.
“You need the willingness to fail all the time. You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.”
–John W. Backus
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