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Peter Naur

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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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Birth Year
1928 1
Birth Date
1928-10-25 1
Death Year
2016 1
Death Date
2016-01-03 1
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Backus-Naur Form, Concepts

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.
  • Infobox, Born
    25 October 1928
  • Infobox, Died
    3 January 2016
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