I thought this was a Denis story not a Ken story. Its still a good
story.  Since you're one of the two people in the conversation, I
think I can take it I'm wrong btw.

(it used to get repeated at UUG, it was always good for a laugh)

-G

On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 2:19 PM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not quite. It was a question I asked him, while Brian Kernighan and I were writing the Unix Programming Environment. His actual response was pithier (as one would expect): "I'd spell creat with an 'e'".
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> -rob
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> On Sat, Feb 8, 2020 at 2:33 PM Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com> wrote:
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>> It has been F-Suck since we first got a copy.
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>> My favorite UNIX quote was Ken Thompson (I hope I’m getting this right Ken), when asked if he could do it over again, if he’d change anything.
>> He said he’d put an “e” on the end of creat.
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>> I’ve always pronounced it CREE-AT.
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