Post-Fortran, Backus worked with Danish computer scientist Peter Naur to develop a notation to describe the structure of programming languages, dubbed the Backus-Naur form.

“Fortran is really the de facto language for scientific computing,” said Dag Spicer, senior curator at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., which made Backus a fellow in 1997.

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Post-Fortran, Backus worked with Danish computer scientist Peter Naur to develop a notation to describe the structure of programming languages, dubbed the Backus-Naur form.