SWEETHEART MOPPET YOU ARE MY ANXIOUS LONGING: MY ANXIOUS
LOVE. MY SYMPATHETIC HEART FERVENTLY YEARNS FOR YOUR
SYMPATHY. MY WINNING ENTHUSIASM LOVES YOUR PASSION. MY DEAR
ENTHUSIASM BURNINGLY TEMPTS YOUR ENCHANTMENT.
YOURS AVIDLY M. U. C.
Except for the "my dear enthusiasm" part (which leaves an enigmatic Tates in its echo of the previous sentence) that's not too bad!
The official expansion of CPL is Combined Programming Language, but I wonder if an inofficial one was ever Chris' Programming Language. (Compare Thierry Coquand)
Doug McIlroy visited Strachey for a year in 1968, a link in the transatlantic story of computer history.
> "According to Doug McIlroy, Christopher Strachey's GPM (general-purpose macrogenerator—a macroexpander of the same era) was only 250 machine instructions, yet it was sufficient to enable Martin Richards's BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language) implementation, later inspiring Ken Thompson to bootstrap C via B, eventually leading to the self-hosting native-code-generating tool chains we now take for granted."
Strachey also taught a Pilot Ace computer to play checkers in 1951. He'll become the first CSci prof at Oxford. (His father was a cryptographer; his brother was Lytton.)
I remember vaguely that Strachey was also responsible for using the Mark 1 to generate music - Baa Baa Blacksheep I believe. He was the first Professor of Computer Science at Oxford.
