[TUHS] Happy birthday, John Lions!

[Warren Toomey]

I do :-)
   Warren

On 19 January 2018 8:44:10 am AEST, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>Dr. Prof. John Lions was born on this day in 1937; I had the pleasure
>of 
>having him as one of my Computer Science lecturers in the early 70s,
>and 
>he drilled into us the Principle of Least Astonishment (or POLA),
>better 
>known as "why the fsck did it do that?" (but he was far too genteel to 
>express it that way).  And yes, that's my name in the credits; I helped
>
>with the proof-reading and provided the use of the high-quality printer
>in 
>the CSU.
>
>You are not expected to understand this.
>
>-- 
>Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will
>suffer."

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