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Re:A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe by trent_lott on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @10:16AM (#24408582)
Similarly Oppenheimer, of the Manhattan project

He thought assuming that leading J made him seem more posh and WASPy

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Re:A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe by pmiller2 on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @03:25PM (#24412003)
Interesting story, but, unfortunately, it's not true. Wiki gives his full name as "Julius Robert Oppenheimer." Julius was apparently his father's name as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Oppenheimer

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