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Re:Frances Allen has died by tkeeler on Thursday August 06, 2020 @02:58PM (#24074258)
Why is there an assumption that graycat is male? Was there an indication of gender?
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Re:Frances Allen has died by LukeShu on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:17PM (#24074440)
Not who you're responding to, but: My assumption was that the user is the greycat, which is the well-known alias of the programmer Greg Wooledge.

Now that you call it out, I realize that it's probably a mistaken assumption, because Greg spells it "greycat" not "graycat". But it wasn't an unreasonable assumption for HN.

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Re:Frances Allen has died by selimthegrim on Thursday August 06, 2020 @03:47PM (#24074707)
He has discussed his wife as well as being a male in graduate school in the past.
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