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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. In other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Linux is STILL for fags.

  2. Re:ACM must die by justthinkit · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Greatest ACM article: http://www.acm.org/cacm/AUG96/antimac.htm, demonstrating what I had thought from the beginning -- that the Mac is the opposite from how things should be done.

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  3. What about VALGOL? by slickwillie · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VALGOL_programming_la nguage

    Here's a sample:

    14 LIKE, Y$KNOW (I MEAN) START
    %% IF
    PI A =LIKE BITCHEN AND
    01 B =LIKE TUBULAR AND
    9 C =LIKE GRODY**MAX
    4K (FERSURE)**2
    18 THEN
    4I FOR I=LIKE 1 TO OH MAYBE 100
    86 DO WAH + (DITTY**2)
    9 BARF(I) =TOTALLY GROSS(OUT)
    -17 SURE
    1F LIKE BAG THIS PROGRAM
    ? REALLY
    $$ LIKE TOTALLY (Y*KNOW)

  4. Re:The Algols were good by zippthorne · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    In what year did the concept of "risk management" as an organisational paradigm/department become popular?

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