Ralph Griswold died

Courtesy of Lambda the Ultimate came the report that Ralph Griswold, creator of the computer languages Snobol and Icon, passed away about two weeks ago. Condolences to his family and friends.

On my shelf I have a copy of his book on the Icon programming language. While it never became widely popular, it had a number of relatively innovative features that influenced later programming languages like Perl and Python. It remains a language worthy of study and consideration. I never learned much about Snobol, I should rectify that.

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  1. soren

    I took a concurrent programming class from Ralph at the University of Arizona, which included Icon. He was a good teacher. RIP, Ralph.

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