Oh, you had him as a teacher? That's awesome. I met him and his family 25+ years ago while they were vacationing in California... and they were all great! He was also at the Morristown WG21 meeting, where C++98 was voted out (in November 1997). (I co-moderated comp.lang.c++.moderated with John. For several years he was the person that kept it alive.)