[Grace-core] Quoting David Gries

[Kim Bruce]

Yesterday, 2002.  Wirth: Algol-W, Pascal, Modula 2, Oberon.  Turing award 1984.

Kim



On May 7, 2013, at 12:45 AM, Marco Servetto <marco.servetto at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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