Comments on: The Library of Congress http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2004/05/22/19/ Preserving historic software Tue, 10 Aug 2010 16:44:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: george adams http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2004/05/22/19/comment-page-1/#comment-23788 george adams Wed, 21 Mar 2007 22:12:04 +0000 http://www.mcjones.org/dustydecks/archives/2004/05/22/19/#comment-23788 There are some contributions so vital as to go wholey unnoticed. Google BNF and the name of any popular language. Millions of hits. Ask ten people in the street to name a programming language or the inventors of any programming languages. Blank stares. Try to imagine logging this comment in a world with out computer languages. At least some of us will miss the person. There are some contributions so vital as to go wholey unnoticed. Google BNF and the name of any popular language. Millions of hits. Ask ten people in the street to name a programming language or the inventors of any programming languages. Blank stares. Try to imagine logging this comment in a world with out computer languages.

At least some of us will miss the person.

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