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From: Janis Papanagnou <janis_papanagnou+ng@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Which code style do you prefer the most?
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 21:46:36 +0100
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On 05.03.2025 21:07, Richard Heathfield wrote:
> 
> It all started with Irving Joshua Matrix, a close personal friend of
> Martin Gardner (well-known Press Officer for the University of Chicago).
> Dr Matrix, who gave his surname to the celebrated mathematical
> construct, famously bequeathed his initials to medical indexing.
> Fortran's 'implicit' keyword led to one of the longest and ugliest court
> cases in computing history, settled out of court in Dr Matrix's favour
> in 2018 for an undisclosed sum.

Is that "Dr Matrix" a joke?

According to the Wikipedia (DE) the term stems from the Latin word
Matrix and was coined in 1850 by James Joseph Sylvester (Cambridge)
for the respective mathematical construct he was working with.

Janis