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Programming Languages Accomplishment | 1957
IBM researcher: John Backus
Where the work was done: IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
What we accomplished: Backus (pictured) developed the first high-level reasonable performance commercial programming language.
Related links: Wikipedia Fortran Entry, IBM Bio of John Backus
Image credit: ACM
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