On October 25, 1928 was born Peter Naur. He was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. His last name is the “N” in the BNF notation (Backus–Naur form), used in the description of the syntax for most programming languages. He contributed to the creation of the ALGOL 60 programming language.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Naur On October … Learn more …
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