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Peter Naur Wins 2005 Turing Award

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the celebrating-people-who-deserve-it dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has named Peter Naur the winner of the 2005 A.M. Turing Award. The award is for Dr. Naur's fundamental contributions to programming language design and the definition of Algol 60, to compiler design, and to the art and practice of computer programming. The Turing Award is considered to be the Nobel Prize of computing, and a well-deserved recognition of Dr. Naur's pioneering contributions to the field."

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  1. Datalogy by Peter_Pork · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Peter Naur is an interesting character. For example, he dislikes the term "Computer Science", and prefers "Datalogy". He also gives Backus the whole credit for inventing BNF, which he calls the Backus Normal Form. I'm sure he has a better name for Algol-60...

  2. Danes everywhere... by weg · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Amazing how many programming languages were actually invented by Danish computer scientists. Peter Naur (ALGOL), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), Anders Hejlsberg (C#), and Mads Tofte contributed a good deal to SML.

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    Georg
  3. Re:Honest question from curious geek- by solitas · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The original Apple logo: http://203.151.217.14/databases/d0002/images/logo1 .jpg

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    "It's time to take life by the cans." ~ Bender ("Bendin' in the Wind", ep. 3-13)
  4. Naur denies having contributed to BNF by MarkoNo5 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Naur himself denies having invented BNF together with Backus. According to himself, it is the Backus Normal Form. Other people put his name in it.