From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:50:09 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, John Lions! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <9C91DBF6-E535-48A1-8DDF-8AFCF56C23AF@tuhs.org> I do :-) Warren On 19 January 2018 8:44:10 am AEST, Dave Horsfall wrote: >Dr. Prof. John Lions was born on this day in 1937; I had the pleasure >of >having him as one of my Computer Science lecturers in the early 70s, >and >he drilled into us the Principle of Least Astonishment (or POLA), >better >known as "why the fsck did it do that?" (but he was far too genteel to >express it that way). And yes, that's my name in the credits; I helped > >with the proof-reading and provided the use of the high-quality printer >in >the CSU. > >You are not expected to understand this. > >-- >Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will >suffer." -- Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: