John Backus

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The lead of the team at IBM who built Fortran, a language that revolutionized programming by allowing human-readable code and achieving portability.

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Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Lex Fridman Podcast #48

Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ | Lex Fridman Podcast #48

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The lead of the team at IBM who built Fortran, a language that revolutionized programming by allowing human-readable code and achieving portability.