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by lolinder 1323 days ago
Honestly, if you're this opposed to exploring Backus's 1977 Turing Award lecture, you are not the target audience. This isn't some obscure paper that's been lost to time, it's been cited 96 times in 2022 alone [0]. It's a huge freaking deal in the PL community, and OP is perfectly justified in referencing it and moving on.

[0] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2022&cites=7066062...