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William Wulf Dead

William Wulf
KindPerson
Born1939
Died2023
StatusDead
Fieldprogramming languages
Sourceen.wikipedia.org ↗

Designed BLISS at Carnegie Mellon — the systems language without a goto — and co-founded Tartan Laboratories.

Created BLISS

Created BLISS and led the Hydra capability OS at CMU; the 'Wulf' in optimizing compilers and the person who coined the 'goto considered harmful' counter-argument nuance.\n\nLater National Academy of Engineering president; the CMU systems school is his building.

Sources

  1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wulf