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Nice to hear mention of RBK Dewar. He was well known in the programming languages field as a professor at NYU, but also was quite successful as an entrepreneu
by 1n3nt0r 3y ago
Nice to hear mention of RBK Dewar. He was well known in the programming languages field as a professor at NYU, but also was quite successful as an entrepreneur with his various compilers (I think his company was called "Realia").
I took one of his classes as an undergraduate at NYU, but used SNOBOL, SETL, and some other early languages as part of a young scholars high school program at NYU in the early 80s.
- geophile 3y agoI remember SETL, and it made a huge impression on me -- just the idea of sets as a primitive datatype. I remember one lecture on using SETL to specify language optimizations, which were set-oriented. Also, that experience primed me for appreciating the relational model, and relational algebra, and I went on to specialize in DBMSs.