{"id":1434,"date":"2007-03-23T16:16:11","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T20:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/backus-and-reinhart-rip\/"},"modified":"2017-11-15T17:10:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T22:10:28","slug":"backus-and-reinhart-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/23\/backus-and-reinhart-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Backus and Reinhart, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nMarch 17 saw the deaths of both <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Backus\">John Backus<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/lambda-the-ultimate.org\/node\/2140\">Lambda<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tanya_Reinhart\">Tanya Reinhart<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/web.mit.edu\/linguistics\/www\/pesetsky.home.html\">David Pesetsky<\/a> via e-mail). Backus was a computer scientist who developed FORTRAN and the Backus-Naur form for describing context-free grammars, and was an early advocate of functional (i.e. state-free) programming. Reinhart was a linguist who made many contributions to syntax, semantics, and other areas of linguistics, including discovering the concept of c-command domains.\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March 17 saw the deaths of both John Backus (via Lambda) and Tanya Reinhart (via David Pesetsky via e-mail). Backus was a computer scientist who developed FORTRAN and the Backus-Naur form for describing context-free grammars, and was an early advocate of functional (i.e. state-free) programming. Reinhart was a linguist who made many contributions to syntax, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-1434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-programming-category","tag-rip"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19549,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1434\/revisions\/19549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}