John Backus, known as the father of the Fortran computer programming language that made computers more accessible, died Saturday in Ashland, Ore., according to the International Business Machines Corp ...

John Backus, the man who led development of the first mainstream programming language, Fortran, has died at the age of 82. His lifelong mission after joining IBM in 1950 as a programmer was to work on ...

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(reg. requ'd). for John Backus, who invented the Fortran computer programming language in the 1950s. IBM says he died Saturday at age 82 in Ashland, where he lived. From the obit: In that last comment ...