From: paul@mcjones.org (Paul McJones)
Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 27, Issue 37
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:09:24 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D568654-03CD-4304-8CF9-C2FCE3662533@mcjones.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.8.1518646502.20342.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
> On Feb 14, 2018, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>
> Computer pioneer Niklaus Wirth was born on this day in 1934; he basically
> designed ALGOL, one of the most influential languages ever, with just
> about every programming language in use today tracing its roots to it.
Wirth designed many languages, including Euler, Algol W, Pascal, Modula, and Oberon, but he did not design Algol; more specifically, he did not design Algol 60. Instead, a committee (J. W. Backus, F. L. Bauer, J. Green, C. Katz, J. McCarthy, P. Naur, A. J. Perlis, H. Rutishauser, K. Samelson, B. Vauquois, J .H. Wegstein, A. van Wijngaarden, and M. Woodger) designed it, and Peter Naur edited the remarkable Algol 60 specification. A few others, including Edsgar Dijkstra, who completed the first implementation, participated in meetings leading up to the final design.
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