This is an amazing conversation. I cannot avoid to think that less than six months after this interview, Mr. Backus passed away and all this knowledge would be lost.
YEA HE DIED ABOUT SIX MONTH AFTER THIS INTERVIEW WAS MADE , I INITALLY THOUGHT HE WAS STILL ALIVE WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS VIDEO ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO THEN I FOUND OUT HE HAD DIED , SAD.
I started working on a functional programming Language in 2001 , after reading John Backus paper , and work on "Can Programming be liberated from the Von-Nueman Architcture " .
Remember the adjunct professor given a lecture about the history of Fortran on the initial day of my Fortran class. Though, why is he going every which way the wind blows, instead of getting into programming. Yes later, I come to appreciate this intro.
The one star that keeps burning, so brightly. He is the last light to fade into the rising sun. A testament to the impracticality of functional programming in real world applications.
WITHOUT JOHN BACKUS FORTRAN PROGRAM LANGUAGE , BASIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE , HIGH COMPUTATIONAL GRAPHIC ,COMPILER TECHNOLOGY, C++ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ,BNF NOTATION, AND THE PERSONAL COMPUTER MIGHT NOT EXIST AS WE KNOW IT TODAY , GOD BLESS HIM
Lord Xelous IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING CONSTRUCTIVE. TO SAY REGARDING THE TOPIC ,OR ABOUT JOHN BACKUS,THEN SHUT up OR GO BACK To YOUR MOMS. BASEMENT And PLAY YOUR VIDEO GAMES
@@evalsoftserver Easy now, Dear Media Hacker. It is beacause all caps is considered shouting and will be read that way. Xelous is not being deconstructive.
@@fisterB I started working on a functional programming Language in 2001 , after reading John Backus paper , and work on "Can Programming be liberated from the Von-Nueman Architcture " .
Grady just kept interrupting and interrupting. Man... when you're in the presence of such a giant just stay silent and listen. Ego is such an annoying thing.
I used to work for a project that did interviews like this for historical purposes and we did some interviews, we acquired some and we had others do interviews for us - I'd guesstimate over 80% of them did that. It's not ego, it's conversational and people just forget about how it's going to sound. They're just talking how they normally would. I listened to hundreds of hours and so often you'd hear "mmhmm", "OK", "amazing" and so on interjected all over the interview as well as talking over the interviewee, not letting them finish, etc. It's just something people do. It's nothing to do with Ego trust me.
This is an amazing conversation. I cannot avoid to think that less than six months after this interview, Mr. Backus passed away and all this knowledge would be lost.
YEA HE DIED ABOUT SIX MONTH AFTER THIS INTERVIEW WAS MADE , I INITALLY THOUGHT HE WAS STILL ALIVE WHEN I FIRST SAW THIS VIDEO ABOUT 3 YEARS AGO THEN I FOUND OUT HE HAD DIED , SAD.
@Jul W It's ok, he's on an old computer that has no lowercase.
Great interview... what an interesting guy!!
This whole channel is amazing.
Great interview, such an interesting and important personality!
I started working on a functional programming Language in 2001 , after reading John Backus paper , and work on "Can Programming be liberated from the Von-Nueman Architcture " .
Remember the adjunct professor given a lecture about the history of Fortran on the initial day of my Fortran class.
Though, why is he going every which way the wind blows, instead of getting into programming.
Yes later, I come to appreciate this intro.
He’s interviewed when his memory was fading already. This interview was actually held a couple of months before his death.
The one star that keeps burning, so brightly. He is the last light to fade into the rising sun. A testament to the impracticality of functional programming in real world applications.
how crazy is it that Mr Backus referenced the old big computers, now we have Iphones which we are literally the size of our hands!!
52:50 Absolute badass!
he's so funny, what a dude
so sad to hear him to talk about his dead colleagues
the irony today though.. many cloud providers charge by the hour :)
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BNF the Meta language
BNF is one of the best invention in computer science. Yacc, Bison, base of compiler.
WITHOUT JOHN BACKUS FORTRAN PROGRAM LANGUAGE , BASIC PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE , HIGH COMPUTATIONAL GRAPHIC ,COMPILER TECHNOLOGY, C++ PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE ,BNF NOTATION, AND THE PERSONAL COMPUTER MIGHT NOT EXIST AS WE KNOW IT TODAY , GOD BLESS HIM
Is your caps lock key stuck?
Lord Xelous IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING CONSTRUCTIVE. TO SAY REGARDING THE TOPIC ,OR ABOUT JOHN BACKUS,THEN SHUT up OR GO BACK To YOUR MOMS. BASEMENT And PLAY YOUR VIDEO GAMES
TheProfiler WHY ARE YOU SHOUTING.... I mean some people, no decorum
@@evalsoftserver Easy now, Dear Media Hacker. It is beacause all caps is considered shouting and will be read that way. Xelous is not being deconstructive.
@@fisterB I started working on a functional programming Language in 2001 , after reading John Backus paper , and work on "Can Programming be liberated from the Von-Nueman Architcture " .
Let the interviewee speak; don't interject or insert "yeah, mhm" all the time.
Don't go into software. Lol.
Grady just kept interrupting and interrupting. Man... when you're in the presence of such a giant just stay silent and listen. Ego is such an annoying thing.
I used to work for a project that did interviews like this for historical purposes and we did some interviews, we acquired some and we had others do interviews for us -
I'd guesstimate over 80% of them did that. It's not ego, it's conversational and people just forget about how it's going to sound. They're just talking how they normally would. I listened to hundreds of hours and so often you'd hear "mmhmm", "OK", "amazing" and so on interjected all over the interview as well as talking over the interviewee, not letting them finish, etc. It's just something people do. It's nothing to do with Ego trust me.