Wikipedia:Wikifun/Round 12/Answers/Question 13

American classifier
Since the Japanese hint in there has absolutely no connection with my guess whatsoever, I'll still go for luck- is the American language classifier Joseph Greenberg and is the relationship that all three share names with actors? (a weak guess, but its the best I can think of) AndyZ 02:00, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * No, sorry. The classifier I meant is another one. For once my hint is not completely unrelated.. ;) -- Ravn 10:01, 6 February 2006 (UTC)

List of Kyoto Prize winners
I got it- all three are on the List of Kyoto Prize winners. The German is Paul Thieme, who held the first World Sanskrit Conference. The American Noam Chomsky classified languages by power. The last, Donald Knuth, is the creator of the TeX, the second Markup language, a type of computer language. AndyZ 22:28, 6 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Congratulations. Two of these three are correct. Then you will also be able to restrict your answer further. -- Ravn 08:52, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Oh, I see who the third person is. (By the way, I was thinking Alan Kay, yet another Kyoto Prize winner and the co-inventor of Smalltalk, the second object-oriented programming language.  But as I can see, he's not who you meant either.) Zoicon5 15:09, 7 February 2006 (UTC)

The third person is John McCarthy (computer scientist), the inventor of the Lisp programming language : Lisp is the second-oldest high-level programming language in widespread use today. All three (Thieme, Chomsky, McCarthy) were Kyoto Prize winners in the year 1988. &mdash; MFH:Talk 15:48, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * This is correct. I will award you twenty-five points. Feel free to share them with AndyZ if he has helped you. -- Ravn 15:55, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Nice... Ironically enough, it was Donald Knuth who was actually the first person I found on the Markup language page that helped to lead me to the List of Kyoto Prize receivers (along with other two which I found later). AndyZ 21:20, 7 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Damn! I thought right away of John McCarthy but didn't noticed he had won a Kyoto prize too... Fetofs Hello! 21:59, 7 February 2006 (UTC)