From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 22:18:48 -0500 From: "Michaelian Ennis" To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Non-stack-based calling conventions In-Reply-To: <86198CC1-1C58-4768-AFBB-0E8874CC5032@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <44671b480802181628lf1f620dx72c5c4b68992d517@mail.gmail.com> <9ef833ffab15672bd217ab9f176a593b@coraid.com> <44671b480802181643n649bb033vb084c1a3d7f43603@mail.gmail.com> <5d375e920802181652g7da96d55hf776b164277ebc7a@mail.gmail.com> <86198CC1-1C58-4768-AFBB-0E8874CC5032@mac.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5a1cc358-ead3-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Feb 18, 2008 8:06 PM, Pietro Gagliardi 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 I think Wirth, who you didn't mention would list Blaise Pascal amongst them.