Backus, West Virginia | |
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  Backus  Backus | |
| Coordinates: 37°51′15″N80°58′29″W / 37.85417°N 80.97472°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | West Virginia |
| County | Fayette |
| Elevation | 2,497 ft (761 m) |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| GNIS ID | 1553774 [1] |
Backus is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It was also known as Naoma and War Ridge.
W. P. Backus, an early postmaster, gave the community his name. [2]
John Warner Backus was an American computer scientist. He directed the team that invented and implemented FORTRAN, the first widely used high-level programming language, and was the inventor of the Backus–Naur form (BNF), a widely used notation to define formal language syntax. He later did research into the function-level programming paradigm, presenting his findings in his influential 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style?"
Backus Township is a civil township of Roscommon County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The popuation was 330 at the 2010 census.
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Belva is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in west Nicholas County and north Fayette County, West Virginia, United States; while the CDP only includes the Nicholas County portion, the Fayette County portion is considered part of the community. The town is situated at the bottomland surrounding the convergence of Bells Creek with Twentymile Creek and, subsequently, Twenty Mile Creek with the Gauley River. Belva is also the location of the convergence of two state highways: West Virginia Route 16 and West Virginia Route 39.
Backus is a surname.
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