F. X. Reid

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.

References

1. ^ FACS FACTS, BCS-FACS, British Computer Society, UK.
2. ^ F. X. Reid, On the Formal Semantics of the COMEFROM Statement. FACS FACTS, Issue 2006-1, pages 18–20, March 2006.
3. ^ Victor Zemantics, Obituary: F.X. Reid. FACS FACTS, Issue 2006-1, pages 12–14, March 2006.
4. ^ F. X. Reid, The Song Of Hakawatha, 1989.

External links

• FXReid profile at LinkedIn
• F. X. Reid — The Movie ?

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