New subject: Grandfather of Smalltalk gets Turing Award [ACM Announces 2005 A.M. Turing Award Winner]

2 Mar 2006


      List,
as you can see from the below, a grandfather of Smalltalk (Peter Naur:  
Algol, Backus-Naur-Form BNF) receives the 2005 Turing award.
Q: anybody else besides Jecel and me who have used Algol ? :)
/Klaus
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Subject: ACM Announces 2005 A.M. Turing Award Winner
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 17:26:48 +0100
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ACM Bulletin - March 2, 2006
Today's Topic: ACM Announces 2005 A.M. Turing Award Winner
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ACM has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award,
recognizing his pioneering work on defining the Algol 60 programming
language. Algol 60 is the model for many later programming languages,
including those that are indispensable software engineering tools today.
The Turing Award, widely considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," is
named for British mathematician Alan M. Turing. First awarded in 1966,
it carries a $100,000 prize, with financial support provided by
Intel Corporation.
Learn more about this year's A.M. Turing Award winner at:
http://www.acm.org/2005_turing_award
Dr. Naur was instrumental in establishing software engineering as a
discipline. In 1960, Dr. Naur was editor of the hugely influential "Report
on the Algorithmic Language Algol 60."  He is recognized for the report's
elegance, uniformity and coherence, and credited as an important  
contributor
to the language's power and simplicity. The report made pioneering use of
what later became known as Backus-Naur Form (BNF) to define the syntax of
programs. BNF is now the standard way to define a computer language.
Dr. Naur is also cited for his contribution to compiler design and to the
art and practice of computer programming.
ACM will present the Turing Award at the annual ACM Awards Banquet on
May 20, 2006, in San Francisco, CA.
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