Stackless goes Limbo
Christian Tismer
ct at gras.de
Fri Apr 26 03:11:01 EDT 2002
"James J. Besemer" schrieb:
>
> Christian Tismer wrote:
>
> > There is some nice introduction to Limbo at
> > http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/descent.html
> > written by Brian W. Kernighan, one of the inventors
> > of the C language.
>
> Just a nit:
>
> Dennis Ritchie invented C. http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/dmr/chist.html
>
> Brian helped invent the AWK language, a precursor to Python. AWK stands for
> Aho Weinberger and Kernighan. Brian wrote a lot of books about C but he was
> not one of the inventors.
Oops!
Sorry about that. I knew it of course, but the
association with the well-known "Kernighan/Ritchie"
Book made me write this mess.
BTW, AWK is more related to Perl than to Python.
I really loved that little language.
ciao - chris
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