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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