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John Backus

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"Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs."
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Quoted in the IBM employee magazine Think in 1979. Cited by his Associated Press obituary

 
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