[ale] Co-founder of BASIC dies, CHips

[Charles Shapiro]

Now this guy will be missed.   You can debate about BASIC ( Dijkstra was
Not a Fan ( https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/teaching/reader/Dijkstra68.pdf
)), but
no question that it was pretty ok good for the time.

-- CHS

On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 12:05 PM Bob Toxen via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> This is From:
>   ACM TechNews; Monday, November 18, 2024
>   (c) 2024 Smithbucklin
>   This service may be reproduced for internal distribution.
>
> Thomas Kurtz, Co-Creator of BASIC, Dies at 96
> Bloomberg (11/14/24) Laurence Arnold
>
> ACM Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, a Dartmouth College professor who
> co-created the BASIC programming code, has died at 96. BASIC (Beginner's
> All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) was invented by John Kemeny,
> chair of Dartmouth's math department, and Kurtz, one of his faculty
> members, as part of their push to open up the world of computing to
> a wide community.
>
> "We looked at languages and we both decided that the languages Fortran,
> Algol, that type of language, were just too complicated," Kurtz said in
> an oral-history interview with Dartmouth.
>
> https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-317b3_0x2431c5x020394
>
> and
>
> U.S. Finalizes $6.6-Billion CHIPS Act Grant to TSMC
> Nikkei Asia (11/15/24) Yifan Yu
>
> The U.S. finalized a CHIPS Act grant of $6.6 billion to Taiwan
> Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), with at least $1 billion to
> be disbursed by the end of the year. The funds will be distributed in
> phases as the company hits certain project milestones. TSCMC will produce
> 3 nanometer (nm), 2 nm, and A16 chips at three Arizona fabs.
>
> https://maestro.acm.org/trk/click?ref=z16l2snue3_2-317b3_0x2431c6x020394
>
> I (Bob) am disappointed that these grants don't seem to be going to
> U.S. companies.  On the other hand four (or so) Japanese and German
> car makers have built plants around the Southeast U.S. over the past
> 20-30 years.  A friend of mine who worked at one spoke highly of it.
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