Chris Rebert wrote:
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Steven
D'Aprano<ste...@remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
I haven't seen any links to this here: Barbara Liskov has won the Turing
Award:
It was posted about the time of the announcement, but is worth the reminded.
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
This inspired me to to spend a couple of hours finding and reading a CLU
manual.
Erm, Wikipedia (which is generally excellent on programming topics)
seems to disagree with you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
"Influenced by ABC, ALGOL 68,[1] C, Haskell, Icon, Lisp, Modula-3, Perl,
Java"
Unless you mean it influenced Python indirectly by way of the
aforelisted languages...
Python's object model, assignment semantics, and call-by-object
mechanism, and that name, come from CLU. Whether Guido knew of it
directly or not, I do not know. To the extent that the above is part of
the heart of Python, I think Steven's statement stands pretty well.
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