Kay Schluehr wrote: > Colin J. Williams wrote: > > >>Without detracting from the last sentence, I disagree. >> >>Peter Naur's honour is long overdue. >> >>Colin W. > > > Sometimes it's hard for me to figure out about what somebody else > disagrees with me in particular when I agree with him. Kay, You wrote: "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."
Perhaps I should have been careful to identify what I disagreed with. > > Is it possible that Peter Naur was forgotten when John Backus received > the Turing Award right in time in 1977? > > Kay > John Backus of IBM made a very different contribution with the development of the FORTRAN compiler. The Algol60 Report was more than BNF, although that was an important component. Best wishes, Colin W. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
