VIVA FIDEL !
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/11/viva-fidel
If Africa is a country, then #Fidel_Castro is one of our national heroes. After fronting the Cuban revolution against a corrupt, American-sponsored dictatorship in 1959, Cuba under Fidel worked hard to develop its own distinct foreign policy independent from its more powerful neighbor, the United States, or its supposed ally, the Soviet Union. Africa […]
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Le danois, Peter Naur, un des fondateurs du langage de programmation Algol 60 est décédé à l’age de 87.
Algol 60 a inspiré la création du langage Pascal.
Naur est également le « N » de BNF - « Backus-Naur-Form » utilisé pour la représentation des structures (syntax) de langages de programmation. C’est une notation pour les grammaires « context-free » de Chomsky.
▻https://deadfamous.info/peter-naur-danish-computer-science-pioneer-died-at-87
Forme de Backus-Naur :
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▻http://africasacountry.com/footballs-messenger-is-no-more
If Maradona is football’s god, then #Eduardo_Galeano wrote football’s holy book. The Uruguyan (who also had good politics: “I don’t believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so.....
]]>Obituary : #Nadine_Gordimer
▻http://africasacountry.com/obituary-nadine-gordimer
My first introduction to Comrade Nadine was through her writing during my student activist days in the mid-1970s and later when I was serving five years on Robben Island as a political prisoner from 1979 to 1984. Her writing struck me so powerfully as it spoke of the lived experiences of people like me fighting […]
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