From: tih at hamartun.priv.no (Tom Ivar Helbekkmo)
Subject: [COFF] Happy birthday, John Backus!
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 20:50:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2muc6sg9x.fsf@thuvia.hamartun.priv.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAC20D2P-OqcUm6+-OxB+EXwP9jPoAArp_P70TfyJO3j2QWi6tg@mail.gmail.com> (Clem Cole's message of "Thu, 5 Dec 2019 14:03:09 -0500")
Clem Cole <clemc at ccc.com> writes:
> I suspect when this was sent out to wherever I picked it up a few
> years ago, the code had been changed to be 'pure F4' ;-)
The version I have is the one that was floating around the SINTRAN
environment at the Norwegian Institute of Technology when I was there
back in the eighties. I don't know where it originally came from, but
it was printed in the in-house information publication RUN-NYTT in 1982.
It's on page 9 of this issue:
https://folk.ntnu.no/klv/IT-historie-ntnu/Run-nytt-1977-93/run-nytt-1-1982.pdf
The comment at the top of the version you posted is actually my own
translation of the text introducing the printed program text.
-tih
--
Most people who graduate with CS degrees don't understand the significance
of Lisp. Lisp is the most important idea in computer science. --Alan Kay
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-12-03 7:55 dave
2019-12-03 13:44 ` clemc
2019-12-03 15:57 ` toby
2019-12-03 16:05 ` lars
2019-12-04 5:41 ` wobblygong
2019-12-04 14:54 ` clemc
2019-12-04 15:08 ` clemc
2019-12-04 15:14 ` clemc
2019-12-05 6:11 ` wobblygong
2019-12-05 12:38 ` clemc
2019-12-05 17:03 ` tih
2019-12-05 18:44 ` clemc
2019-12-05 19:03 ` clemc
2019-12-05 19:50 ` tih [this message]
2019-12-05 20:56 ` clemc
2019-12-03 19:20 ` cym224
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