[Discuss] "Fortran father John Backus, dead at 82"

[Lloyd Budd]

Seems relevant with the recent Fortran discussions:

"Backus helped define the "hacker ethic". Leading a small team to do
great things quickly, and leverage their own mistakes in order to
learn, Backus shattered the paradigm of 1950s corporate IBM and,
developed a language that is only now beginning to fade into history."

Backus is quoted as saying, "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."

http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/03/20/fortran-father-john-backus-dead-at-82/

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