No description available of John W. Backus...Backus, John W. (1978): Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and its Algebra of Programs. In Communications of the ACM, 21 (8) pp. 613-641
Backus, John W., Bauer, Friedrich L., Green, Julien, Katz, C., McCarthy, John, Perlis, Alan J., Rutishauser, Heinz, Samelson, Klaus, Vauquois, Bernard, Wegstein, Joseph Henry, Wijngaarden, Adriaan van, Woodger, Michael and Naur, Peter (1963): Revised report on the algorithm language ALGOL 60. In Communications of the ACM, 6 (1) pp. 1-17
Backus, John W., Bauer, Friedrich L., Green, Julien, Katz, C., McCarthy, John, Perlis, Alan J., Rutishauser, Heinz, Samelson, Klaus, Vauquois, Bernard, Wegstein, Joseph Henry, Wijngaarden, Adriaan van and Woodger, Michael (1960): Report on the algorithmic language ALGOL 60. In Communications of the ACM, 3 (5) pp. 299-314
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Publication period:1960-1978
Publication count:3
Number of co-authors:12
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