{"id":581,"date":"2007-03-23T00:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T09:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/24\/john-backus\/"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2013-03-16T03:35:37","slug":"john-backus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/john-backus\/","title":{"rendered":"John Backus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Backus\">John Backus<\/A> is one of the first names I&#8217;ve heard, back at the times of the university. He&#8217;s the guy who came out with the Backus-Naur form, that you may remember under the&nbsp;acronym BNF. He also got a National Medal of Science and a Turing Award: we are talking about a PILLAR of modern computer science.&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#8217;ve heard that mr. Backus passed away days ago, and the very&nbsp;least I can do is granting him the tribute of a post. Thank you mr. Backus, that &#8220;B&#8221; in BNF&nbsp;will never&nbsp;look small to me.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Backus is one of the first names I&#8217;ve heard, back at the times of the university. He&#8217;s the guy who came out with the Backus-Naur form, that you may remember under the&nbsp;acronym BNF. He also got a National Medal of Science and a Turing Award: we are talking about a PILLAR of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1784,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/1784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cloudidentity.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}