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5 unusual facts about Nathaniel Rochester


Herbert Gelernter

First implemented with Nathaniel Rochester a computer language for list processing within FORTRAN, the work for this was done, in fact, with Carl Gerberich at IBM, to this end producing the FLPL (Fortran list processing language).

Nathaniel Rochester

His father, who owned Rochester House, died when he was two years old and five years later his mother remarried.

His gravestone features a paraphrase of Christopher Wren's epitaph: "SI QUÆRIS MONUMENTUM, CIRCUMSPICE" ("If you seek his monument, look around yourself").

Nathaniel Rochester (February 21, 1752 - May 17, 1831) was an American Revolutionary War soldier and land speculator, most noted for founding the settlement which would become Rochester, New York.

Here he married Sophia Beatty in 1788, and they had twelve children, among them Judge and Congressman William B. Rochester and Mayor Thomas H. Rochester.



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Charles August

He was a member of the Nathaniel Rochester Society at Rochester Institute of Technology.