I was all set to dive into “No Silver Bullet” for the next Code Reads, but given last night’s news of the passing away of John Backus, father of FORTRAN, I thought I would do a quick revision of the plan.
The next Code Reads will focus on Backus’s 1977 Turing lecture, “Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?” It’s full of equations and math notation that, superficially at least, look daunting to this reader — but I will give it a try, and perhaps the collective expertise of all of you will help bolster me in those areas where I falter!
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