"John A. Bailo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[Snips] > What exciting new ideas exist in software that are both important and > cannot be traced back to Doug Engbart's 1968 presentation at Xerox > Parc? The only two I would think worth mentioning are Nygaard et al's ideas on patterns as embodied in Mjolner Beta, and Colmerauer's on logic programming as embodied in Prolog. And maybe pi calculus, if only for sticking the formal foundation in where it was missing from under O-O. But Prolog and pi calculus are regarded as marginal activities, and most software people have stil contrived never to have heard of Nygaard, despite his being the inventor (with Ole-Johan Dahl) of O-O in 1967. All the best, John. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
