[ih] RIP Danny Cohen

Stephen Casner casner at acm.org
Tue Aug 13 19:22:47 PDT 2019


On Tue, 13 Aug 2019, Ross Callon wrote:

> I am of course aware of his very significant technical
> work. However, I remember him best for his superb humor. I still
> have a copy of his “The world according to Finnegan”, which is a
> collection of his humorous works. Like most good humor, it is of
> course entirely correct and offers a unique insight into the
> world. I will re-read it and be thankful to have known him.

And in particular, "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace", originally
published in Datamation, that gave us the terms little-endian and
big-endian to describe bit- and byte-ordering.

                                                        -- Steve


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