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Podcast: Programmers
Episode: Peter Naur's Research Paper - Programming as Theory Building
Description: Peter Naur (25 October 1928 β 3 January 2016)[1] was a Danish computer science pioneer and Turing award winner. He is best known as a contributor, with John Backus, to the BackusβNaur form (BNF) notation used in describing the syntax for most programming languages. He also contributed to creating the language ALGOL 60.