Backus: Well, because the fundamental paradigm did not include a way of dealing with real time. It was a way of saying how to transform this thing into that thi

Backus: Well, because the fundamental paradigm did not include a way of dealing with real time. It was a way of saying how to transform this thing into that thing, but there was no element of time involved, and that was where it got hung up. Booch: That’s a problem you wrestled with for literally years. Backus: Yeah, and unsuccessfully. http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2013/05/102657970-05-01-acc.pdf http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...