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As a matter of interest do we know when this was written? The PDF has a date of 2007 but the latest reference is Wirth's book, published in 1996.

by pedrow 9y ago

vidarh 9y ago
This looks to be the original publication [1]: Hanspeter Mössenböck: Compiler Construction - The Art of Niklaus Wirth. Chapter in: Böszörmeny et al.(eds): The School of Niklaus Wirth, dpunkt.verlag 2000, pp.55-68 An extensive list of Mössenböck's publications can be found here[2] [1] http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Moe00b.html http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Moe00b.html [2] http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/ http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/ (while this from the page looks like it's for his institute, it looks like all of them have him as at least co-author, and they include papers from his past institutions including his time at ETHZ with Wirth; e.g. a favourite of mine of his earlier paper is this collaboration with Marc M. Brandis on generating SSA forms for structured languages in a single pass [3] from '94 - as a confessed Niklaus Wirth fanboy I read most of the papers that came out of his research group in the early 90's..) [3] http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Moe94.html http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Moe94.html EDIT: I of course had to check, and Amazon (at least in the UK) has the book this is from (The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity ), though it's expensive... I just had to share this hilarious find from one of the reviews: "For me, this book is one to keep forever. I enjoyed every page (apart from the section written by Dijkstra since it was handwritten..)." EDIT2: And having been seduced into buying this book, I can confirm Dijkstra's contribution (On the transitive closure of a well founded relation; dedicated to Niklaus Wirth) is in fact included in his handwritten form. I wish I had handwriting like that (but not enough to put in the effort).
- sctb 9y ago
  Thanks for sleuthing! We've updated the title.
- tom_mellior 9y ago
  > in: Böszörmeny et al.(eds): The School of Niklaus Wirth I used to have that book somewhere. All of it was nicely typeset, except for Dijkstra's chapter, which was facsimile copies of (nicely) handwritten text.
  - vidarh 9y ago
    His handwriting is fantastic. And it's such an obvious fun little quirk given how famous he is for his handwritten notes.

As a matter of interest do we know when this was written? The PDF has a date of 2007 but the latest reference is Wirth's book, published in 1996.

by pedrow 9y ago

As a matter of interest do we know when this was written? The PDF has a date of 2007 but the latest reference is Wirth's book, published in 1996.

vidarh 9y ago

This looks to be the original publication [1]: Hanspeter Mössenböck: Compiler Construction - The Art of Niklaus Wirth. Chapter in: Böszörmeny et al.(eds): The School of Niklaus Wirth, dpunkt.verlag 2000, pp.55-68 An extensive list of Mössenböck's publications can be found here[2] [1] http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Moe00b.html http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Moe00b.html [2] http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/ http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/ (while this from the page looks like it's for his institute, it looks like all of them have him as at least co-author, and they include papers from his past institutions including his time at ETHZ with Wirth; e.g. a favourite of mine of his earlier paper is this collaboration with Marc M. Brandis on generating SSA forms for structured languages in a single pass [3] from '94 - as a confessed Niklaus Wirth fanboy I read most of the papers that came out of his research group in the early 90's..) [3] http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Moe94.html http://ssw.jku.at/Research/Papers/Moe94.html EDIT: I of course had to check, and Amazon (at least in the UK) has the book this is from (The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity ), though it's expensive... I just had to share this hilarious find from one of the reviews: "For me, this book is one to keep forever. I enjoyed every page (apart from the section written by Dijkstra since it was handwritten..)." EDIT2: And having been seduced into buying this book, I can confirm Dijkstra's contribution (On the transitive closure of a well founded relation; dedicated to Niklaus Wirth) is in fact included in his handwritten form. I wish I had handwriting like that (but not enough to put in the effort).

sctb 9y ago
Thanks for sleuthing! We've updated the title.
tom_mellior 9y ago
> in: Böszörmeny et al.(eds): The School of Niklaus Wirth I used to have that book somewhere. All of it was nicely typeset, except for Dijkstra's chapter, which was facsimile copies of (nicely) handwritten text.
- vidarh 9y ago
  His handwriting is fantastic. And it's such an obvious fun little quirk given how famous he is for his handwritten notes.