On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 07:50:26AM -0700, Sanjeev Sharma wrote: > "Turing is useless" ... > > While I worked as a programmer I used to complain quite bitterly about > university comp sci departments that had NIH (not invented here) syndrome > and a captive audience. > > I learned Turing as my 2nd programming language. I'm sure the only reason > it could have been taught is the profs & grad students that "invented" > (added a few trivial things to Pascal) Turing had great political pull at > University of Toronto in that decade.
If I recall correctly, Turing was a systems language and was use to implement Tunis, an early Unix work-alike. It was a pity it didn't get distributed more freely, or we would have had a free OS long before Linux. -- hendrik -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to racket-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
