South African Sydney Brenner was awarded the Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine in 2002. His joint discovery of messenger
RNA, and, in more recent years, his development of gene cloning,
sequencing and manipulation techniques along with his work for
the Human Genome Project have led to his standing as a pioneer
in the field of genetics and molecular biology. One of the
things I did was, to teach myself computing thoroughly, I
decided to implement a language. And this language I found in a
publication, it's calledTRAC — T-R-A-C —It's Text Reckoner And
Compiler, published in The Journal of the American Association
of Computing Machinery, 1965, by a man called Calvin Mooers, who
I ascertained two years ago was still alive. And I was very
impressed by this because I actually did write an interpreter
for it, and… and became so fascinated by this language that even
on my present machines the first thing I've done is write an
interpreter for Trac, and my versions of Trac include a whole
lot of new constructs, and