@Roger, Does amending so that it reads 'the only two non-joint Turing award winners to share an office." make it true?
Also, has Dr Brooks ever commented on the lack of "mainstream" acceptance of APL? On 12/18/2011 3:48 AM, Roger Hui wrote: > Good story. Thanks. > > I am skeptical about the following: > >> Among the many interesting comments and observations Dr. Brooks had >> during the interview, one of my favorites was that he and Ken were >> probably the only two Turing Award winners to ever share an office (Dr. >> Brooks won the Turing Award in 1999). > How does Brooks (or you) know that Newell and Simon (1975), or Thompson and > Ritchie (1983), or any and all of the joint winners, never shared an office? > > -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- |\/| Randy A MacDonald | If the string is too tight, it will snap |\\| [email protected]| If it is too loose, it won't play... BSc(Math) UNBF '83 | APL: If you can say it, it's done. Natural Born APL'er | I use Real J Experimental webserver http://142.167.66.223/ (Dynamic IP) ------------------------------------------------<-NTP>----{ gnat }- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
