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Backus, John Warner (1924–2007)| US mathematician and computer specialist. He was the project leader of the group at International Business Machines (IBM) that developed FORTRAN (1953–57), the first high-level language in data processing. He also worked on the IBM 704 computer with Gene Amdahl during the 1950s, and invented an important meta-language known as BNF, or Backus-Naur-Form. |
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