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  • BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96

    11/20/2024 10:03:19 AM PST · by ShadowAce · 61 replies
    The Register ^ | 20 November 2024 | Liam Proven
    Obit Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96. Along with his colleague, John Kemeny, Kurtz's work revolutionized computing, operating systems, and programming language design.Kurtz was born in Illinois in 1928, and died last week in a hospice in New Hampshire, the home of Dartmouth College where he worked and taught.Kurtz is most famous as the co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, but almost as influential was the operating system on which BASIC first ran, which he also co-designed: the Dartmouth Timesharing System or DTSS.Kurtz co-designed both DTSS and the BASIC language alongside his...
  • Bill Gross: "Normal" Economic Growth Impossible Now: 90% of the Media Now Controlled by 6 Companies

    08/23/2012 3:04:20 PM PDT · by lbryce · 4 replies
    Money Morning ^ | August 23, 2012 | Terry Weiss
    Legendary market maven Bill Gross, the so-called "King of Bonds," said investors will flat-out lose money if they continue employing the "buy and hold" strategies of the past. In his August Investment Outlook, Gross told investors that "financial repression, QEs of all sorts and sizes" and low interest rates will "dominate the timescape" for decades, maybe longer. Investors must adjust to the new world order to avoid being the loser in this zero-growth environment, Gross warned. Ultimately, Gross said, the stock market's historical, inflation-adjusted 6.6% annual growth rate is unsustainable. Gross, of course, is a bond man. In March, he...