[Tfug] Note of Passage

[erich]

    Was he related to televisian  actor Jim Backus, (also deceased), who
played
upper crust characters such as Thurston Howell, and was the voice of Mr
Magoo?

                                                                       Erich
Jim Secan wrote:

>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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