4 Dec
2018
4 Dec
'18
9:18 p.m.
On 2018-12-04 9:43 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
Possibly, but it's far harder to unpack thesis and reasoning from a
codebase.
From: Toby
Thain
He made amends by being early to recognise that
problem, and propose
solutions, in his 1977 ACM Turing Award lecture
Actually, I'd consider a far bigger amend to be his work on Algol 60 (he was one of the main contributors), which Hoare so
memorably described as "a
language so far ahead of its time that it was not only an improvement on its
predecessors but also on nearly all its successors".
...
Noel