But chances are good you haven't heard about the passing of John Backus, a computing pioneer who invented the Fortran programming language for IBM.

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But chances are good you haven't heard about the passing of John Backus, a computing pioneer who invented the Fortran programming language for IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ).

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Fortran helped popularize programming and usher in the computer age.

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