[Grace-core] Quoting David Gries

Marco Servetto marco.servetto at gmail.com
Tue May 7 00:45:56 PDT 2013


In his keynote talk yesterday, Wirth said that...

Sorry for my ignorance, who is Wirth?
and the yesterday talk was yesterday 06 may 2013 or yestery w.r.t.
June, 2002 in Aarhus?

On 7 May 2013 18:42, James Noble <kjx at ecs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote:
>> Even if someone writes that book, I am pessimistic about people using it, because it won't use a popular language! Who is going to use a book that doesn't use C/C++ or Java? Out of the question. It's a symptom of the main problem of our field; we are influenced too much by outsiders."
>
> so first we need the language (and, were are close to an intermediate design I think)
>  then we need the concise description
>  then we need the book
>
> and above all,  somehow,  we need to build a community
>
> J
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