On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 19:16, Joe Zeff <joe@zeff.us> wrote:

On 10/27/2011 03:10 PM, Alan Evans wrote:

> First Jobs, then Ritchie, now McCarthy... Al Gore should be watching his back...



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No, Gore has nothing to worry about.

Only the good die young.

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:-)

I personally care most about James Gosling, Linus Torvalds, and Mike Cowlishaw, father of Rexx and NetRexx. Inventors of other languages / software that I don´t use, are irrelevant. ;-)


Sorry for being selfish.

FC
PS: Anyone knows what is former Borland founder Philippe Kahn up to lately? I miss Borland products... from the time they kicked the s... out of the competition (Quattro Pro, and the Paradox database).

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On 10/27/2011 10:52 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
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> PS: Anyone knows what is former Borland founder Philippe Kahn up to lately?
> I miss Borland products... from the time they kicked the s... out of the
> competition (Quattro Pro, and the Paradox database).


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Kahn


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On 10/27/2011 11:52 PM, Fernando Cassia wrote:
> I personally care most about James Gosling, Linus Torvalds, and Mike
> Cowlishaw, father of Rexx and NetRexx. Inventors of other languages /
> software that I don´t use, are irrelevant. ;-)

Well, McCarthy was one of the designers of ALGOL, and in particular he
first proposed recursion for the language. It's possible that few
(except perhaps McCarthy himself) knew how important this would be.

ALGOL 60 -> CPL -> BCPL -> B -> C

So there! :-)

Andrew.


McCarthy, J. (1959) On Conditional Expressions and Recursive Functions
(Letter). CACM, 2:8, 2-3. cited in proc. HOPL I.
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Yea, I still have my first edition Turbo Pascal book (though not the 5 1/4" floppy, unfortunately).* Still in good condition, too.

From: Fernando Cassia <fcassia@gmail.com>
To: Community support for Fedora users <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Not a good month for computer pioneers
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