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Adriaan van Wijngaarden Dead

Adriaan van Wijngaarden
KindPerson
Born1916
Died1987
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Led the design of ALGOL 68 — brilliant, orthogonal, and legendarily unreadable in its two-level grammar.

Created ALGOL 68

Led the ALGOL 68 design — the committee's most ambitious language, formally specified with two-level grammars he invented.\n\nThe specification's rigor made the language hard to implement and read; the committee split famously produced the Minority Report.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriaan_van_Wijngaarden