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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14372)	11/23/1997 10:00:00 PM
From: Keith Hankin	Respond to of 24154

>>> Nah, Algol (60) was the father of ALGOL-like languages, which is most of them besides FORTRAN and COBOL. Most people would say the father of OO languages was Simula, Oops, you're right on this one. I got them mixed up.

To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (14372)	11/24/1997 4:32:00 AM
From: Charles Hughes	Respond to of 24154

>>>This is usually credited to Vanevar Bush, some kind of technical guru in the Roosevelt administration. There's a famous Atlantic article from the late 40's call "How We May Think", which explained the ideas, although his mechanism was microfiche based. <<< I think this was a relative of George Bush's. Father? His name pops up all over the place as some kind of policy super-wog. Now that you remind me, Ted Nelson is the guy whose name I couldn't remember. MIT? Anyway, his implementations may have sucked (v0.01, after all.) but really, first in software would be first. But was he? I think this was all covered in the awards at the recent ACM 50th anniversary convention. They had a web site, if it's still up I'll search it and report back. Same on Bush. Chaz