F. X. Reid
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F. X. Reid (aka FXR) is the pen name of British computer science academic Mike W. Shields.
Reid has been a long-time and contributor to the British Computer Society FACS Specialist Group newsletter FACS FACTS.[1] He has been an enthusiast for the COMEFROM statement and an expert on its semantics.[2] Apparently reports of FXR's death in 2006 [3] were untrue and his musings continue in the FACS FACTS newsletter.
Reid's most widely-known work is "The Song of Hakawatha,"[4] a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha containing references to hacking, Unix and compilers.
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- ^ FACS FACTS, BCS-FACS, British Computer Society, UK.
- ^ F. X. Reid, On the Formal Semantics of the COMEFROM Statement. FACS FACTS, Issue 2006-1, pages 18–20, March 2006.
- ^ Victor Zemantics, Obituary: F.X. Reid. FACS FACTS, Issue 2006-1, pages 12–14, March 2006.
- ^ F. X. Reid, The Song Of Hakawatha, 1989.
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