F. X. Reid

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F. X. Reid (aka FXR, who purportedly died 2006) was and continues to be the pen name of a British academic.

Reid has been a long-time and amusing contributor to the BCS-FACS Specialist Group newsletter FACS FACTS. He has been an enthusiast for the COMEFROM statement and an expert on its semantics. Apparently reports of FXR's death in 2006 were greatly exaggerated and his musings live on in the FACS FACTS newsletter.

Reid allegedly wrote "The Song of Hakawatha," a parody of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Song of Hiawatha containing references to hacking, Unix and compilers. It was posted on Usenet by Duncan Sinclair in 1989 (as an April Fools joke?) and allegedly originated in the University of Glasgow in the early 1980s.

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