A legacy indeed.  A friend of mine was once asked what would be the most
common programming languages in coming years.  His response:

I have no idea what they will be.  But they will be called Fortran and
Cobol.
 

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Subject: [EE] Obituary - John Backus, FORTRAN team leader

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Backus

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