Re: Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

2009-06-25 Thread Martin v. Löwis
> Python's object model, assignment semantics, and call-by-object > mechanism, and that name, come from CLU. Whether Guido knew of it > directly or not, I do not know. To the extent that the above is part of > the heart of Python, I think Steven's statement stands pretty well. Why do you say that

Re: Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

2009-06-25 Thread Terry Reedy
Chris Rebert wrote: On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano wrote: I haven't seen any links to this here: Barbara Liskov has won the Turing Award: It was posted about the time of the announcement, but is worth the reminded. http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/turing-liskov-0310.html

Re: Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

2009-06-25 Thread Chris Rebert
On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Steven D'Aprano 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 > Ma

Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award

2009-06-25 Thread Steven D'Aprano
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