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From: Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:35:46 -0500
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
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So there is no definite answer to that question. Perhaps even I, who
has not fully published anything well-programmed (my pico is still a
mess), could be considered this way. Both "important" and "to date"
are relative.

On Feb 18, 2008, at 10:29 PM, Michaelian Ennis wrote:

> On Feb 18, 2008 10:18 PM, Michaelian Ennis
> <michaelian.ennis@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Feb 18, 2008 8:06 PM, Pietro Gagliardi <pietro10@mac.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Name the most important person/people in the computer field to date.
>>>         WHAT YOU MIGHT HEAR:
>>>                 - Bill Gates
>>>                 - Steve Jobs
>>>         CORRECT:
>>>                 - Thompson & Ritchie, all the way! :-)
>>>                 - Alan Turing
>>>                 - The great Structured Programming trio: Hoare,
>>> Dijkstra, and Dahl
>>>                 - Knuth
>
> Oh and if you like using transistors for compution,  Pingala had an
> interserting contribution.