The Lyons Corner Shops predeceased him, and David Caminer has now joined them.
One of the principal designers of LEO, the first business computer, he was a
programmer of genius and an anomaly: Think, as a British obituary writer
suggested, of McDonald's designing the Internet to get some notion of just how
unprecedented his achievements were.
He is not nearly so well known outside the UK as he should be, and it is too
bad that a spate of obituaries should be the occasion for putting an end to his
obscurity elsewhere.John GilmoreAshland, MA 01721-1817USA
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