From owner-cse584-sp07-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Wed Mar 21 09:02:52 2007 Received: from ares.cse.buffalo.edu (ares.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.79]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l2LD2qf3004117 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:02:52 -0400 (EDT) Received: from front2.acsu.buffalo.edu (warmfront.acsu.buffalo.edu [128.205.6.88]) by ares.cse.buffalo.edu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with SMTP id l2LD2h1s028170 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:02:43 -0400 (EDT) Received: (qmail 9788 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2007 13:02:43 -0000 Received: from mailscan3.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.135) by front2.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 13:02:43 -0000 Received: (qmail 11562 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2007 13:02:42 -0000 Received: from deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.57) by front1.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 13:02:42 -0000 Received: (qmail 1017 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2007 13:02:23 -0000 Received: from listserv.buffalo.edu (128.205.7.35) by deliverance.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 13:02:23 -0000 Received: by LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 14.5) with spool id 3988016 for CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:02:22 -0400 Delivered-To: cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu Received: (qmail 14874 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2007 13:02:04 -0000 Received: from mailscan1.acsu.buffalo.edu (128.205.6.133) by listserv.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 13:02:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 5482 invoked from network); 21 Mar 2007 13:02:03 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.buffalo.edu (128.205.32.14) by smtp3.acsu.buffalo.edu with SMTP; 21 Mar 2007 13:02:03 -0000 Received: from castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (rapaport@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.10) with ESMTP id l2LD22dA004073 for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:02:02 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from rapaport@localhost) by castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.13.6/8.12.9/Submit) id l2LD223v004072 for cse584-sp07-list@listserv.buffalo.edu; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:02:02 -0400 (EDT) X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-PM-EL-Spam-Prob: : 7% Message-ID: <200703211302.l2LD223v004072@castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU> Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 09:02:02 -0400 Reply-To: "William J. Rapaport" Sender: "Philosophy of Computer Science, Spring 2007" From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: John Backus, Fortran creator, dies To: CSE584-SP07-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Precedence: list List-Help: , List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Owner: List-Archive: X-UB-Relay: (castor.cse.buffalo.edu) X-DCC-Buffalo.EDU-Metrics: castor.cse.Buffalo.EDU 1336; Body=0 Fuz1=0 Fuz2=0 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=unavailable version=3.1.7 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.7 (2006-10-05) on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.88.6/2892/Wed Mar 21 06:40:09 2007 on ares.cse.buffalo.edu X-Virus-Status: Clean Status: R Content-Length: 1095 | From alphonce@cse.Buffalo.EDU Wed Mar 21 08:49:41 2007 | From: "Carl G. Alphonce" | Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 08:49:38 -0400 | To: cse-faculty@cse.Buffalo.EDU | Subject: Re: [SIGCSE-members] RIP: John Backus, Inventor of FORTRAN | | | Also of general interest, sent around to the SIGCSE mailing list, | . | | Carl | | on Wednesday March 21, 2007, Richard Pattis wrote: | > >From yesteday's (Tuesday's) NYT | > | > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries&oref=slogin | | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail | /\ | ------------------------------------------------------------------------ | Carl Alphonce alphonce@cse.buffalo.edu | Dept of Computer Science and Engineering (716) 645-3180 x115 (tel) | University at Buffalo (716) 645-3464 (fax) | Buffalo, NY 14260-2000 www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/alphonce |