From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@acm.org>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:56:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111013165652.GD12236@skaro.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c25b46a9-02b9-4a9d-8ebe-0096e32722b8@h14g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>
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Thats true. I hope the Turing award is more widely know in other
parts of the world than it is here (a bit sad as I can walk to
Bletchley Park from here). At least the general public know that
winning a Nobel prize is something significant, although even that
gets woefully little media attention here.
DigbyT
On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:19:02PM +0000, pera wrote:
> Turing Award is something like a Nobel prize for computers.
>
> RIP dmr :'(
>
> On Oct 13, 10:18 am, dig...@acm.org (Digby Tarvin) wrote:
> > It is so sad that the people most responsible for the key software
> > technologies are almost unheard of by the general public, and most
> > credit seems to be given to people that jump on the bandwagon much
> > later..
> >
> > If there was a Nobel prize for software, dmr would have been one of
> > the top on my list.
> >
> > DigbyT
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 09:19:01AM -0400, ComeauAt9F...@gmail.com wrote:
> > > C and UNIX were each very significant turning points in my life for various reasons. Two thoughts:
> >
> > > printf("Thank you DMR!\n");
> >
> > > return EXIT_SUCCESS;
> >
> > --
> > Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)digbyt.comhttp://www.digbyt.com
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Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-13 5:29 Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13 5:35 ` Tharaneedharan Vilwanathan
2011-10-13 6:57 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-10-13 13:19 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2011-10-13 13:44 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 13:30 ` dexen deVries
2011-10-13 15:19 ` pera
2011-10-13 16:56 ` Digby Tarvin [this message]
2011-10-13 17:26 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 17:40 ` simon softnet
2011-10-13 18:24 ` Digby Tarvin
2011-10-13 18:38 ` Charles Forsyth
2011-10-13 17:19 ` tlaronde
2011-10-13 17:22 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2011-10-13 19:30 ` erik quanstrom
2011-10-13 20:02 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-10-13 21:19 ` Nick LaForge
2011-10-13 22:57 ` Thomas
2011-10-13 23:20 ` Bruce Ellis
2011-10-24 8:46 ` Akshat Kumar
2011-11-10 9:43 ` Peter A. Cejchan
2011-11-10 12:56 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-10 12:57 ` Wes Kussmaul
2011-11-11 0:10 ` clinton
2011-10-13 18:14 ` ComeauAt9Fans@gmail.com
2020-09-28 18:32 Sad news Dan Cross
2020-09-28 18:54 ` [9fans] " Gorka Guardiola
2020-09-28 19:24 ` Gabriel Díaz López De La Llave
2020-09-28 19:29 ` Federico Benavento
2020-09-28 19:38 ` Don Bailey
2020-09-28 21:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2020-09-29 3:44 ` Lucio De Re
2020-09-29 8:01 ` enrique.soriano
2020-09-29 8:07 ` Francisco Ballesteros
2020-09-29 11:57 ` elbingmiss
2020-09-30 8:20 ` Sergey Zhilkin
2020-09-30 8:43 ` Christopher Nielsen
2020-09-29 8:14 Steve Simon
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