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Tony Brooker Has Died

• nummy 7y ago
  old news
• gus_massa 7y ago
  Small discussions of las week: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719760 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21719760 (33 points, 7 days ago, 5 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21714015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21714015 (7 points, 8 days, 1 comment) In particular, he invented Autocode for the Mark 1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocode, (perhaps) the first high level programming language.