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Charles Hamblin
Hamblin apparently died from an illness acquired while attempting to set words of Wittgenstein to music, which perhaps shows the perils of that philosopher’s ideas.

Visual Introduction to DSSSL (V0.2)

this is the thing that sgml comes from. another lisp thing

Konrad Zuse
My research was initially aimed at pure number calculation, but soon led on (1935/36) to new ideas about “computing” in general. Personally, I believe that was the birth of modern computer science. I recognized that computing could be seen as a general means of dealing with data and that all data could be represented through bit patterns, generally speaking.

Von Neumann programming languages – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A von Neumann language is any of those programming languages that are high-level abstract isomorphic copies of von Neumann architectures. As of 2004, most current programming languages fit into this description, likely as a consequence of the extensive domination of the von Neumann computer architecture during the past 50 years.