Someone is killing all the designers of actually good languages, like Lisp and C. My guess is that they're either paving the way for a new horrible ENTERPRISE Java-esque language, or it's just Microsofts PR department.
So I just /prog/scrapgreppified for `John Backus' and none of you even cared when he died. If it wasn't for FORTRAN, C and quite possibly modern Lisp would not exist.