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How John Backus's Fortran beat the machine code 'priesthood'
- gjvc 4y agoSome great quotes in this article, for example: "Like any other frontier group, the programming community also had its purveyors of snake oil." Backus remembered that “Some early programming concepts and systems enjoyed a kind of fantasy fame that was a result of the energy with which they were publicized more than anything else…”