Editing John Backus (section)

==External links==
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*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030605163136/http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Backus.html Biography at School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland]
*[http://www.thocp.net/biographies/backus_john.htm Biography at The History of Computing Project]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20050409030420/http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~aiken/ftp/FL.ps The FL project] (Postscript file)
* {{cite news |title=Obituary for John W. Backus |newspaper=New York Times |date=20 March 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070328191308/http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/builders/builders_backus.html IBM Archives]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20070403083523/http://cui.unige.ch/db-research/Enseignement/analyseinfo/AboutBNF.html About BNF]
* [http://www.computerhistory.org/fellowawards/index.php?id=70 Hall of Fellows] [[Computer History Museum]]
* {{cite journal |first=Martin |last=Campbell-Kelly |title=Obituary: John Backus (1924–2007):Inventor of science's most widespread programming language, Fortran |journal=[[Nature (journal)|Nature]] |volume=446 |issue=7139 |page=998 |date=April 2007 |doi= 10.1038/446998a |pmid=17460658 |s2cid=4325337 |doi-access=free }}
* [http://theory.stanford.edu/~aiken/other/backus.pdf Memorial delivered at the 2007 Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation]

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