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John Backus was a American computer scientist. Backus led the IBM team that created FORTRAN, demonstrating that high-level programming could produce efficient machine code for scientific work.

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  1. Functional Programming 3 sources · updated Jul 26, 2026
  2. Compiler Engineering 2 sources · updated Jul 26, 2026
  3. FORTRAN 2 sources · updated Jul 26, 2026

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