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== John Jaworski ==

John was my class teacher in 1968-9, when he won the New Scientist Competition of the Year, a year's free use of the Imperial College IBM 360, which he kindly shared with us, so we pitched in with the undergrads bit-mapping fonts and working on bubble-sorting. He himself was working on "a program which writes programs" and came in in a foul mood one day: IBM had just launched Basic 1, and had snaffled "START()" and "BEGIN()" for file-handling, so I jested, "Why not use my name, Sir?" He looked sideways, muttered "That's not such a bad idea at that" and that was the last I heard of it for five years, until Uni, and Kernigan and Richie's C...
About another decade passed, and I was working on code interfacing one of the first hedging programs in the corporate world, which meant checking with Bjarne Stroustrup, formerly of Ball Labs. Having finished that, I asked in passing if they'd nicked that idea from John, and it seems they did. So now I'm at the heart of all evil... [[Special:Contributions/2.219.81.89|2.219.81.89]] ([[User talk:2.219.81.89|talk]]) 08:42, 30 July 2024 (UTC)