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What took so long? And, come on, you have to at least mention Latex. edit: they do, on a more full citation: http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205
by scott_s 13y ago
What took so long? And, come on, you have to at least mention Latex.
edit: they do, on a more full citation: http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm http://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/lamport_1205376.cfm
- bcantrill 13y agoWhat took so long, indeed. As long as I have been associated with the ACM on behalf of the practitioner, I have complained about this to anyone and everyone. Many thought he had already won (!) and a few believed that he didn't deserve to win because he is "merely a popularizer" (!!), and some (rightfully, probably) encouraged me to inject myself in the process if I felt so strongly about it. There was no way I was going to do that, so I had resigned myself to a lifetime of merely complaining about it. I was elated to discover this morning that my complaining has been cut short, and that Lamport has won the award that is long overdue to him!
- jestinjoy1 13y agoIt should be LaTeX, not Latex :)
- amboar 13y agoI actually thought "what's he done /this/ time?" before reading the announcement. Then wondered the same thing.