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A picture of Mel Kaye (the Real Programmer) [pdf]

9 pointsby 15y agoweb.me.com
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15y agoHN ↗

(Context: http://catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html)

He's in the image at the bottom-left of page one. I found it via Google after extracting the right keywords from an e-mail conversation between myself and Ed Nather.

Sadly, not even a Real Programmer can escape Google.

15y agoHN ↗

He looks young enough to still be alive.