[HN Gopher] John Backus (1924 - 2007) [pdf]
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       John Backus (1924 - 2007) [pdf]
        
       Author : breathnow
       Score  : 38 points
       Date   : 2023-05-02 03:05 UTC (19 hours ago)
        
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       | abeppu wrote:
       | I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on why FL seems not to have
       | had much of an impact, either in use on its own or as a direct
       | inspiration for later languages? (or if I'm missing things
       | inspired by FL, what are they?) Is it the combination of a
       | variable-free style with a dynamically typed system that made it
       | challenging to work with?
        
         | agumonkey wrote:
         | I'm not a PLT guy, but from my little reading, I think it was
         | too radical and too early. But it was fun reading him saying
         | "Everything works with pure functions, well, except IO, we need
         | to fix that." decades ago.
        
       | petesoper wrote:
       | Backus-Naur form was a great help to me in the 70s and 80s.
       | Thanks, John.
        
       | babelthuap wrote:
       | [flagged]
        
         | zabzonk wrote:
         | well, thank you for that. not.
        
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