Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

[Chris Rebert]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Steven
D'Aprano<steven at remove.this.cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> I haven't seen any links to this here: Barbara Liskov has won the Turing
> Award:
>
> http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/turing-liskov-0310.html/?
>
>
> [quote]
> Institute Professor Barbara Liskov has won the Association for Computing
> Machinery's A.M. Turing Award, one of the highest honors in science and
> engineering, for her pioneering work in the design of computer
> programming languages. Liskov's achievements underpin virtually every
> modern computing-related convenience in people's daily lives.
> [end quote]
>
> Liskov is well known for the "Liskov substitution principle". She also
> created the language CLU, one of the most important inspirations to
> Python

Erm, Wikipedia (which is generally excellent on programming topics)
seems to disagree with you.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)
"Influenced by	ABC, ALGOL 68,[1] C, Haskell, Icon, Lisp, Modula-3, Perl, Java"

Unless you mean it influenced Python indirectly by way of the
aforelisted languages...

Cheers,
Chris
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