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What you're seeing is actually the death of the second generation of great comp sci minds, IMO. The first modern generation included von Neumann (b. 1903), Hopp
by ternaryoperator 15y ago
What you're seeing is actually the death of the second generation of great comp sci minds, IMO. The first modern generation included von Neumann (b. 1903), Hopper (b. 1906), Turing (b. 1912), and others. McCarthy (1927), Knuth (1932), Hoare (1934) etc. are of the next generation. Obviously, you can cut generations on any arbitraty line and YMMV, but the 15-20 year gap seems a reasonable grouping, IMO.
- arethuza 15y agoWould that make Leibniz part of the zeroth generation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz#Computation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Leibniz#Computation
- khafra 15y agoHe's pre-generational, along with people like Ramon Llull and Hero of Alexandria (who, however, did not have such a heroically unusual distribution of letters in his last name).