Comment by fuzztester

Fortran reminded me of John Backus.

I had read about him and about his FP language early in my career, when I was reading up on all kinds of computer subjects.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Backus

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function-level_programming

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/FP_(programming_language)