This term is part of our Unit 7: People in IT vocabulary list. Please note that pronunciations can vary slightly even in the same dialect.
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(December 3, 1924 - March 17, 2007) American computer scientist known for leading the team who invented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language
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"John Warner Backus was famous in computer circles for inventing FORTRAN, as well as his formal language definition called the Backus-Naur form (BNF)."