{"id":1470,"date":"2007-03-20T08:28:23","date_gmt":"2007-03-20T15:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1470"},"modified":"2007-03-20T08:28:23","modified_gmt":"2007-03-20T15:28:23","slug":"print-rip-john-backus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/03\/20\/print-rip-john-backus\/","title":{"rendered":"PRINT *, &#039;RIP, John Backus&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Backus, who led the team that invented FORTRAN, has <a href=\"https:\/\/myaccount.nytimes.com\/auth\/login?URI=www-nc.nytimes.com\/2007\/03\/20\/business\/20backus.html&amp;REFUSE_COOKIE_ERROR=SHOW_ERROR\">passed away<\/a>.  In a testimony to the staying power of FORTRAN, when I was doing an undergraduate research project in astrophysics in 1995, most of the code I delt with was written in FORTRAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Backus, who led the team that invented FORTRAN, has passed away. In a testimony to the staying power of FORTRAN, when I was doing an undergraduate research project in astrophysics in 1995, most of the code I delt with was written in FORTRAN.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}