F. X. Reid
Encyclopedia
F. X. Reid 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. He has been an enthusiast for the COMEFROM
statement and an expert on its semantics. Apparently reports of FXR's death in 2006 were untrue and his musings continue in the FACS FACTS newsletter.
Reid's most widely-known work is "The Song of Hakawatha," a parody
of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
's poem The Song of Hiawatha
containing references to hacking, Unix
and compiler
s.
Pen name
A pen name, nom de plume, or literary double, is a pseudonym adopted by an author. A pen name may be used to make the author's name more distinctive, to disguise his or her gender, to distance an author from some or all of his or her works, to protect the author from retribution for his or her...
of British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
computer science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
academic Mike W. Shields.
Reid has been a long-time and contributor to the British Computer Society
British Computer Society
The British Computer Society, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in Information Technology in the United Kingdom and internationally...
FACS
BCS-FACS
BCS-FACS is the British Computer Society Formal Aspects of Computing Science Specialist Group. The group, founded in 1978, organizes meetings for its members and others on formal methods and related computer science topics...
Specialist Group newsletter FACS FACTS. He has been an enthusiast for the COMEFROM
COMEFROM
In computer programming, COMEFROM is an obscure control flow structure used in some programming languages, originally as a joke....
statement and an expert on its semantics. Apparently reports of FXR's death in 2006 were untrue and his musings continue in the FACS FACTS newsletter.
Reid's most widely-known work is "The Song of Hakawatha," a parody
Parody
A parody , in current usage, is an imitative work created to mock, comment on, or trivialise an original work, its subject, author, style, or some other target, by means of humorous, satiric or ironic imitation...
of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline...
's poem The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem, in trochaic tetrameter, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, featuring an Indian hero and loosely based on legends and ethnography of the Ojibwe and other Native American peoples contained in Algic Researches and additional writings of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft...
containing references to hacking, Unix
Unix
Unix is a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system originally developed in 1969 by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs, including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Douglas McIlroy, and Joe Ossanna...
and compiler
Compiler
A compiler is a computer program that transforms source code written in a programming language into another computer language...
s.
External links
- FXReid profile at LinkedInLinkedInLinkedIn is a business-related social networking site. Founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003, it is mainly used for professional networking. , LinkedIn reports more than 120 million registered users in more than 200 countries and territories. The site is available in English, French,...
- F. X. Reid — The Movie ?