Talk:Simon Peyton Jones

C--
Re: Gwern's comment on the article, AIUI there are no plans to abandon C-- as a GHC backend, because the native code generator starts from C-- and generates asm from there. However, in any case, I think that level of detail should be reserved for the article on C-- itself. In this article, I think it's sufficient just to say that SPJ worked on C--. SparsityProblem 23:51, 8 October 2007 (UTC)

Name
There is no hyphen. Peyton Jones has said that when he started at Microsoft, the people who set up his email account added a hyphen to his name and he didn't want to correct them. I don't have a source for that, but if you look at any of his publications -- for example, a recent paper -- or the biography on his home page, you can see that his last name isn't hyphenated. SparsityProblem (talk) 04:49, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

overkill number of references
one sentence, 12 references. Totally unencyclopedic.

These are the references:

He is an honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow and co-supervises PhD students at the University of Cambridge.

they have been reduced to two.