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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

-- 
Digby R. S. Tarvin                                          digbyt(at)digbyt.com
http://www.digbyt.com



  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-13 16:56 UTC|newest]

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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