Terry Reedy wrote: > http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/3_2006/turing_3_01_2006.cfm > > Peter Naur was co-developer of Backus/Naur grammar notation, co-author and > editor of the Algol 60 specification, and co-developer of a successful > Algol compiler.
That's very fine. Peter Naur has to be honored before he dies and Algol gets forgotten forever. Sarkasm mode off. Is it just me who thinks that this grand-old-man gala should be cancelled and replaced by a fields medal mode where the jury has to prove that it is a little more up to date? Maybe being at age of 50 would be good upper limit ( our societies grow older ;) This mode would enable to honor Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler for Haskell and introducing monads to Haskell before the language is phased out in 20+ years. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
