On Sun, 26 Jul 2015, Didier Kryn wrote:
> >I encountered this principle long ago when I got involved in the
> >design and implementation of Algol 68 -- they deliberately violated it
> >with one feature -- they decided that everyone would pay the price of
> >a procedure calling mechanism that supported recursion.

yes, after this post I definitely feel like a youngster.

> Le 25/07/2015 20:55, Hendrik Boom a écrit :
>     So you were involved in the design of Algol68! This was the first
>     language I learned, in 1972-1973. The second of a great lineage
>     which comprises Pascal and Ada. Kudos Hendrik! That's a pretty
>     long carreer.

if one is able to look beyond the decreasing hate rethoric, in this list
there are real pearls of wisdom being shared by a rather unique and
diverse set of generations. its quite breath taking sometimes :^)

this is also very attuned to one of the oldest among dyne.org's
missions: that of supporting the creation of a working computer museum
in Sicily http://museum.dyne.org/en/ where we gathered many rare pieces
already.

I hope soon there will be the possibility to organize a gathering of
sorts, perhaps in the near of our museum, which can be about Devuan as
a main topic, but it should certainly leave space to this very community
and the importance of historical memory when designing new systems.

ciao


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