X-Nico

2 unusual facts about Derrick Morris


Derek Morris

Derrick Morris (died 2005), Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant patient

Derrick Morris

Morris, a docker from Swansea, had suffered a heart attack in 1975, and received his new heart in an operation carried out by Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital in 1980.



see also

Atlas Autocode

It was developed by Tony Brooker and Derrick Morris as a variant of the ALGOL programming language, removing some Algol features such as "passing parameters by name" (which in Algol 60 means passing the address of a short subroutine to recalculate the parameter each time it was mentioned).