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Oral History of John Backus
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Interviewed by Grady Booch on September 5, 2006, in Ashland, Oregon, X3715.2007 © Computer History Museum John Backus led a team at IBM in 1957 that created the first successful high-level programming language, FORTRAN. It was designed to solve problems in science and engineering, and many dialects of the language are still in use throughout the world. Describing the development of FORTRAN,…