tries to end the confusion by identifying the most important innovations in software, removing hardware advances and products that didn't embody significant new software innovations.
Alan Mathison Turing, OBE (June 23, 1912 – June 7, 1954) was an English mathematician, logician, and cryptographer. Turing is often considered to be the father of modern computer science.
Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" (mostly about JAVA) discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users.