Peter Naur (25 October 1928 – 3 January 2016) was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. He is best known 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.
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25 October 1928 Frederiksberg, Denmark
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Died |
3 January 2016 (aged 87) Herlev, Denmark
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Zodiac | Scorpio |
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