Craig's thesis was heavily influenced by the work of John Backus on functional programming ( FP ) languages.

John Backus presented FP in his 1977 Turing Award lecture " Can Programming Be Liberated From the von Neumann Style?

In late 1953, John W. Backus submitted a proposal to his superiors at IBM to develop a more practical alternative to assembly language for programming their IBM 704 mainframe computer.

John Backus, a programming language designer at IBM, proposed " metalinguistic formulas "

John Warner Backus ( December 3, 1924 – March 17, 2007 ) was an American computer scientist.

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Gov. John M. Dalton, himself a lawyer and a man of long service in government, spoke with rich background and experience when he said in an address here that lawyers ought to quit sitting in the Missouri General Assembly, or quit accepting fees from individuals and corporations who have controversies with or axes to grind with the government and who are retained, not because of their legal talents, but because of their government influence.

Equally significant, Pope John has said that Catholics themselves bear some responsibility for Christian disunity.

It has been said of John Stuart Mill that he wrote so clearly that he could be found out.

`` What you see are self-help projects '', John said.

John said: `` I have some antiseptic salve with me, but it's too late for that ''.

One of these men is former Fire Chief John A. Laughlin, he said.

Our blessed Lord Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God, who could not lie, said, `` Amen, amen, I say to thee, unless a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God '' ( St. John 3: 3 ).

The Department of Agriculture averaged out U.S. food consumption last year at 1,488 lbs. per person, which, allowing for the 17 million Americans that John Kennedy said go to bed hungry every night, means that certain gluttons on the upper end must somehow down 8 lbs. or more a day.

Some people said Linda had just announced the engagement to jolt John into some action, but when John came home from a business trip to Cleveland with Edythe, with Edythe his bride, it could no longer be John-and-Linda even to sentimental wishful thinkers.

She giggled during the ceremony, and Mousie Chandler, who was one of Linda's bridesmaids, said John glared black as death at her.

`` Don't think Linda couldn't have got John back any time, if she'd tried '', Mousie Gordon, who had been Mousie Chandler, said between bites of a chicken sandwich at a luncheon table at Le Mont.

`` I'm behind John Cooper '', Mr. Lovejoy said finally.

They are said to go back at least to the Greek poet Lycophron, in the third century BCE ; but this relies on an account of Lycophron given by John Tzetzes in the 12th century.

" Eleanor Audeley ", wife of Sir John Davies, is said to have been brought before the High Commission in 1634 for extravagances, stimulated by the discovery that her name could be transposed to " Reveale, O Daniel ", and to have been laughed out of court by another anagram submitted by Sir John Lambe, the dean of the Arches, " Dame Eleanor Davies ", " Never soe mad a ladie ".

** " Hello, John ," I said.

The Ark of the Covenant was said to be have been kept in the Basilica of St. John Lateran, surviving the pillages of Rome by Genseric and Alaric I but lost when the basilica burned.

Joel Chandler Harris's ' Br ' er Rabbit ' of the Uncle Remus stories is said to be patterned after High John the Conqueror.

In a 1996 USA Today article, Washington State zoologist John Crane said, " There is no such thing as Bigfoot.

John I. Taylor had said in December 1907 that the Pilgrims “ sounded too much like homeless wanderers .”

" ( King James Version ) They consider that when Jesus said in John 3: 5 that one has to be born from " water and the spirit " to enter the kingdom of God, it was not a command but a necessity, because the text states " Ye must be born again ".

Clipperton's name comes from John Clipperton, an English pirate and privateer who fought the Spanish during the early 18th century, and who is said to have passed by the island.

At a forum at the university during the 2008 presidential election campaign, both John McCain and Barack Obama said that the university should consider reinstating ROTC on campus.

This, it contends, is what Jesus meant when he said that " the devil is a liar and the father of it " ( John 8: 44 ).