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Subject: inventor of fortran dies
Date: 20 Mar 2007 06:46:39 -0700
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John Backus passed away.
Many scientists have had a love-hate relationship with the language he
developed.
FORTRAN is one of the "big three" languages developed at the dawn of
the computer age and still in use today.
In memoriam ...

Note : je ne savais pas où mettre ça, si vous voulez le déplacer ailleurs, ne vous gênez pas (j'ai hésité avec Club, Taverne, Fortran, ....)