From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] In Memoriam: Edsger Dijkstra, and happy birthday Jon Postel!
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2018 10:04:17 +1000 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.1808060955320.79568@aneurin.horsfall.org> (raw)
What a weird day...
We lost computer pioneer Edsger Dijkstra in 2002; he gave us ALGOL,
structured programming, semaphores, and ranted against the GOTO statement
(much to the distress of the Fortranites and their spaghetti coding).
Oh, and a certain Prof. Goto used to complain that everybody wanted to
eliminate him :-)
However, we gained Jon Postel in 1943; with umpteen RFCs to his name, he
could pretty much be described as the Father of the Internet.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."
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2018-08-06 0:04 Dave Horsfall [this message]
2018-08-06 1:15 Noel Chiappa
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