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Putting John Backus on a giant pedestal

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Lawrence =?iso-8859-13?q?D=FFOlivei to Thomas Koenig

Re: "Internationalis(z)ing Code - Comput

27 Jan 26 05:17:12

   XPost: comp.lang.c, comp.lang.c++   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:47:33 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   > There is a story where he wrote a Fortran compiler, which failed   
   > tests and was therefore not accepted, and he refused to fix the   
   > bugs.   
      
   Who was dumb enough to buy that?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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