It seems that Edsger Dijkstra has passed away: http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2002-08/msg00363.html A man to whom computer science owes rather a lot. -- Sean Neakums - <sneakums@ufo.chicago.il.us> --- --- -- - Director of International Operations, UFO Chicago - -- - http://ufo.chicago.il.us/ --- ------ ----- ---- --- -- -