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 notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Peter Naur refined and popularized the notation as editor of the ALGOL 60 report, giving it the form later called Backus-Naur Form.
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Peter Naur (25 October 1928 - 3 January 2016) 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.
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