Fortran developer dies

[miriam_e]

John W Backus, team leader of the original FORTRAN development team at IBM, died on 17 March at the respectable age of 82.

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Thurston Howell III, a programmer...who'da thunk?

[radargrrl.livejournal.com]

That doesn't leave too many of the cast alive! I think the only ones left are the Professor, Mary-Ann and the original Ginger.

Re: Thurston Howell III, a programmer...who'da thunk?

[miriam-e.livejournal.com]

:D heheheh
No, you're thinking of Jim (James) Backus (http://imdb.com/name/nm0000822/), who after working on more than 200 movies still gets remembered as Mr Howell of Gilligan's Island and as the voice of Mr Magoo.

As you can see from the pic which, in my hurry before I didn't include (sorry about that), John Backus is a different person.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/business/20backus.html