On 12/21/2013 11:59 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
On 21 Dec 2013 11:31:22 GMT, Steven D'Aprano
I don't know. What is it? I'm sure your code is the most fabulous, awesome and brilliant thing since Grace Hopper came up with FORmula TRANslation back in the 1950s,
As I recall, Grace Hopper was involved in COmmon Business Oriented Language.
Yes, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_hopper Somehow, I had the same impression as Steven. > FORTRAN credit goes to John Backus (the B in BNF notation) He assembled and directed the team (at IBM, it appears). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Backus -- Terry Jan Reedy -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
