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Peter Naur

Peter Naur
Peter Naur, Danish computer scientist, astronomer, and academic (d. 2016)

Peter Naur was a Danish computer science pioneer and 2005 Turing award winner. He is best remembered as a contributor, with John Backus, to the Backus–Naur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.

25 October 1928

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