I haven't seen any links to this here: Barbara Liskov has won the Turing Award:
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/turing-liskov-0310.html/? [quote] Institute Professor Barbara Liskov has won the Association for Computing Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in science and engineering, for her pioneering work in the design of computer programming languages. Liskov's achievements underpin virtually every modern computing-related convenience in people's daily lives. [end quote] Liskov is well known for the "Liskov substitution principle". She also created the language CLU, one of the most important inspirations to Python, and coined the term "pass by object" (also known as "pass by object reference") to describe CLU's then novel argument passing behaviour. Such behaviour has since become a virtual standard for OO languages such as Python and Java. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
