What is the contribution of John Backus in development of software?
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Answer: He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal language syntax.
Explanation: He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture.
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