Who among the following invented the FORTRAN language?

Q. Who among the following invented the FORTRAN language?
Answer: J.W.Backus
Notes: John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He invented and implemented FORTRAN which is the first widely used high- level programming language. He was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF).

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