[Tfug] Note of Passage

[Jim Secan]

For all you (us) dinosaurs lurking on this list, slashdot reports that John
W. Backus, leader of the IBM team that developed FORTRAN, has died.  As one
who writes 80-90% of his code in FORTRAN, who has been known to dream in
FORTRAN (nightmare?), and still has a FORTRAN 80-column coding pad
(somewhere), I mark his passing as that of a old friend.

Jim
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