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Alan Perlis Dead

Alan Perlis
KindPerson
Born1922
Died1990
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourcewww.cs.yale.edu ↗

Chaired the ALGOL 58/60 committees, won the first Turing Award (1966), and wrote the Epigrams on Programming.

First Turing Award winner (1966) — for ALGOL compiler work and founding Carnegie Mellon's computer science department.\n\nHis 'Epigrams on Programming' (1982) remains the wittiest collection of programming aphorisms ever assembled.

Sources

  1. cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Perlis