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, [email protected] (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, [email protected] 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
