Yeah, that was a nice article. There are some interesting responses on Slashdot (link below). If anyone here is unfamiliar with Slashdot, I recommend changing your settings to only show +5 moderated posts. I thought the posts by 'Edward Kmett' and 'TwobyTwo', towards the end, were especially interesting.
http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/20/0223234 On Mar 22, 5:14 pm, "David Joyner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A nice article on John Backus, the father of Fortran (short for > "Formula translator"), appeared in the NY Times. Though Fortran has only > come up a few times in the SAGE email list discussions, I thought a few > people on this list might enjoy it: > <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/obituaries/20cnd-backus.html?_r=2&o...> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-forum URLs: http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ and http://sage.scipy.org/sage/ -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
