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by the_af 2284 days ago
This was a fun read, thanks for sharing.

"Computer science arrogance is measured in nano-Dijkstras" :)

I wasn't familiar with Bill Wadge. Apparently he designed Lucid: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucid_(programming_language)

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Yup, the pioneering dataflow language (along with Ed Ashcroft) much praised by Alan Kay.

Wadge has been blogging for a few years now, some about Lucid and more recently telling stories from his academic career.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...