From: Avindra G <aavindraa@gmail.com>
To: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu>
Cc: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] [tuhs] Dennis Ritchie's couch
Date: Wed, 26 May 2021 00:10:26 -0400 [thread overview]
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That is an impressive lotus posture (by Professor Ullman). What a fun
picture. Thanks for sharing.
avg
On Tue, May 25, 2021 at 8:20 PM Nelson H. F. Beebe <beebe@math.utah.edu>
wrote:
> The last article of the latest issue of the Communications of the ACM
> that appeared electronically earlier today is a brief interview with
> this year's ACM Turing Award winners, Al Aho and Jeff Ullman.
>
> The article is
>
> Last byte: Shaping the foundations of programming languages
> https://doi.org/10.1145/3460442
> Comm. ACM 64(6), 120, 119, June 2021.
>
> and it includes a picture of the two winners sitting on Dennis
> Ritchie's couch.
>
> I liked this snippet from Jeff Ullman, praising fellow list member
> Steve Johnson's landmark program, yacc:
>
> >> ...
> >> At the time of the first Fortran compiler, it took several
> >> person-years to write a parser. By the time yacc came around,
> >> you could do it in an afternoon.
> >> ...
>
>
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-26 0:12 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2021-05-26 0:37 ` Rob Pike
2021-05-26 3:03 ` Larry McVoy
2021-05-26 4:02 ` Rob Pike
2021-05-26 6:20 ` Bakul Shah
2021-05-26 6:52 ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02 2:13 ` scj
2021-07-02 3:30 ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02 3:34 ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02 4:40 ` Rob Pike
2021-07-02 6:29 ` George Michaelson
2021-07-02 7:00 ` Bakul Shah
2021-07-02 17:17 ` [TUHS] " Tony Finch
2021-07-04 23:40 ` George Michaelson
2021-07-05 3:41 ` Bakul Shah
2021-05-26 5:13 ` [TUHS] [tuhs] " arnold
2021-05-26 4:10 ` Avindra G [this message]
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