Talk:Henry Spencer

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This page shouldn't be referenced by the Eraserhead entry.

74.64.12.202 19:49, 4 March 2007 (UTC)Stephen[reply]

The Ten Commandments[edit]

The article currently says Henry "co-authored" The Ten Commandments for C Programmers. I seem to recall that he was the sole author. See, for example, http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/henry/ and http://www.lysator.liu.se/c/ten-commandments.html. Does anyone know for sure? Cheers, CWC 09:38, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. I edited the page to reflect this and provided a link to the original usenet post. Bjornen 07:26, 18 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Picture?[edit]

A picture is on this NASA web page about Henry Spencer himself: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/henry.html Can it be included? --19:25, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

It's odd - in the fifteen years since that photograph was taken, he seems to have dyed his hair white. -Ashley Pomeroy (talk) 21:55, 27 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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