Kay Schluehr wrote: > 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. > Without detracting from the last sentence, I disagree.
Peter Naur's honour is long overdue. Colin W. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list