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The title should of read: Creator of Rapid Application Development, Dr James Martin, dies at 79
by muloka 13y ago
The title should of read:
Creator of Rapid Application Development, Dr James Martin, dies at 79
- muloka 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_%28author%29 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Martin_%28author%29
- unreal37 13y agoSomehow that's not nearly enough. Amazing that he was able to buy his own island and donate $100MM+ to Oxford University.
- muloka 13y agoIts tough this guy was such a legend and so I thought "Creator of Rapid Application Development" would probably pique most people's interests amongst Hacker News' demographic. I had also considered this: Largest Benefactor to Oxford University, Dr. James Martin, dies at 79
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- GeorgeTirebiter 13y agoHi, this is a small nit about your comment: You say "... $100MM+ ..." but how is that different than "... $100M+ ..." ? If it's not different, then why double the "M"? Thanks! (Perhaps it's just a typo.)
- dagw 13y agoDifferent areas have different conventions, leading to some confusion. Finance uses MM for a million, the physical sciences use M. In the the finance case 'M' comes from the Latin 'mille', meaning thousand, so MM means thousand thousand. In the sciences M means Mega (from the Greek meaning 'Great'), which is the SI prefix for 10^6
- unreal37 13y agodagw answered this. "MM" is one convention for million, and somehow over the years I've adopted it.
- muloka 13y agoanother alternative: Computing Legend, Dr. James Martin, dies at 79
- ak39 13y agoAlso coined the term 4GL. Truly a legend.