From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 17:56:53 +0100 From: Digby Tarvin To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20111013165652.GD12236@skaro.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi10x20 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] Sad News Topicbox-Message-UUID: 37878068-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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. >=20 > RIP dmr :'( >=20 > On Oct 13, 10:18=A0am, 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 wro= te: > > > C and UNIX were each very significant turning points in my life for= various reasons. =A0Two thoughts: > > > > > printf("Thank you DMR!\n"); > > > > > return EXIT_SUCCESS; > > > > -- > > Digby R. S. Tarvin =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0= =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0digbyt(at)digbyt.comhttp://www.digbyt.com --=20 Digby R. S. Tarvin digbyt(at)dig= byt.com http://www.digbyt.com