[TUHS] Happy birthday, John Backus!

[Toby Thain]

On 2018-12-04 9:43 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Toby Thain
> 
>     > He made amends by being early to recognise that problem, and propose
>     > solutions, in his 1977 ACM Turing Award lecture
> 
> Actually, I'd consider a far bigger amend to be his work on Algol 60 (he was

Possibly, but it's far harder to unpack thesis and reasoning from a
codebase.

> one of the main contributors), which Hoare so memorably described as "a
> language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its
> predecessors but also on nearly all its successors".
> ...
> 
>        Noel
>