dec 3, 1924 - John Backus is born.

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John Backus was an American computer scientist that invented the FORTRAN language alongside his team at IBM. In addition, he served on committees developing the ALGOL system of programming languages and helped create the Backus-Naur Form, which is used to describe programming languages. He was a significant figure to the field of computer science as he made many important contributions to functional programming languages and systems.