From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: paul@mcjones.org (Paul McJones) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2018 20:09:24 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 27, Issue 37 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <3D568654-03CD-4304-8CF9-C2FCE3662533@mcjones.org> > On Feb 14, 2018, Dave Horsfall 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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: