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Don't you dare close the book on 2007 yet! Carl F Gauze reviews the Top 19 celebrity deaths of the year that was, and you're not likely to see these folks in soft-focus pinups in People Magazne.
... 's a fun fact about Mr. Buchwald -- he left his hospice to go on vacation. What a trooper! John Backus, the ultimate computer geek, developed the FORTRAN programming language while working for IBM. FORTRAN was one of the first high-level languages that looked like algebra and not hieroglyphics. His algebraic ...
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Carl F Gauze tallies 19 deaths in 2006 that somehow affect all of us, even though we may have missed their obituary.
... . David Stemple 5. Another man you're unlike to recall at the drop of an obituary is David Stemple. His big contribution to modern life is the first FORTRAN compiler. This magic piece of code allowed engineers and scientists to apply computers to real problems by writing code that looked like algebra ...
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