RIP Dave Farber

[Kurt Buff]

We in this profession all owe a debt to him:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Farber

Kurt

[Michael B. Smith]

We used snobol at university, 40+ years ago, for finding polynomial solutions. I haven’t thought about that in a lot of years.

 

https://grokipedia.com/page/SNOBOL

 

RIP Dave Farber

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[Micheal Espinola]

Oh wow, an ESS as well as SNOBOL designer...  the organizations he helped found...  one of his doctoral students (Paul Mockapetris) invented DNS...

This man's legacy is unmatched

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