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by titzer 2138 days ago
I agree with most of your comment but I don't agree that compilers was a mature field by 1970. That was before SSA, graph coloring register allocation, and even linear scan, all three of which were pretty revolutionary.

I saw her 2007 Turing Award speech. I have tremendous respect for Fran and like your idea to name a codegen after her :-)