Re: A database theory resource - ideas
Date: 17 Mar 2007 18:53:51 -0700
Message-ID: <1174182831.551687.217660_at_y80g2000hsf.googlegroups.com>
On Mar 17, 2:51 pm, "Tony D" <tonyisyour..._at_netscape.net> wrote:
> On Mar 17, 5:09 am, Bob Badour <bbad..._at_pei.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
> > On the programming side of things, one can look for names like Sipser,
> > Knuth, Dijkstra, Plauger, Cargill, Stroustrop, Maguire, Ullman again,
> > Aho, Ritchie, Kernighan, a bunch more from both Bell Labs and Xerox
> > PARC. While things are much better on the programming side, the signal
> > to noise ratio is still abysmal.
>
> Kernighan ??? Ritchie ????? That pair are immediately barred for
> between them producing an abomination above/beneath all others and
> then daring to write an utterly godforsaken book about it ("The C
> Programming Language") and setting us all back untold years.
> And in the same breath as genuine giants like Knuth and Dijkstra too.
> On the FP side, Simon Peyton Jones and Philip Wadler are usually well
> worth a read.
Cardelli? Hello? How have we come this far and no one has mentioned Cardelli?
Peyton-Jones is uber-interesting. Wadler mostly just confuses me these days; is he playing an elaborate joke on us or what?
Marshall Received on Sun Mar 18 2007 - 02:53:51 CET