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   <title>Founder of NYU Computer Science passes away at 79</title>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Schwartz">Jacob Schwartz</a>,
the founder of the
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courant_Institute_of_Mathematical_Sciences">Courant Institute's</a>
<a href="http://cs.nyu.edu">Computer Science Department</a>, and designer of the 
<a href="http://www.setl-lang.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page">SETL</a> programming language
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/04/science/04schwartz.html?_r=1">passed away last week</a>.
He was behind the NYU <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracomputer">Ultracomputer</a>
project.
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETL">SETL</a> is incidentally one of the languages we
will be studying as part of the 'Honors Programming Languages' 
<a href="http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/spring09/G22.3110-001/index.html">course</a>.
SETL is said to have indirectly influenced Python. It is based on Set Theory and
allows very succinct list-comprehension-like one-liners. At the start of the course
(in January), we were told that it was decided to drop Python in SETL's favor 
since SETL would be more 'fun'.
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