William F. (Bill) Opdyke is a computer scientist. His 1992 Ph.D. thesis from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, Refactoring Object-Oriented Frameworks, was the first in-depth study of code refactoring as a software engineering technique. Opdyke has worked as a researcher at Bell Labs, as a computer science professor at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois, and for Motorola in Schaumberg, Illinois.
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“When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later William IV] at Plymouth, and all three being very loose in their manners, and coarse in their language, Prince William said to his ship’s crew, “now I hope you see that I am not the greatest blackguard of my family.””
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