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'F. X. Reid' (aka 'FXR', who purportedly died 2006) was and continues to be the pen name of British academic Mike W. Shields.
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's most widely-known work is "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 originated at the University of Kent at Canterbury in the mid 1980s.

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★ The Song Of Hakawatha by F. X. Reid

★ F. X. Reid — The Movie ?

★ FACS FACTS Newsletter