From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: athornton at gmail.com (Adam Thornton)
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2021 11:11:08 -0700
Subject: [COFF] Holy Wars of Computing
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> On Feb 4, 2021, at 10:34 AM, Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 08:39:01AM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote:
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>>> On Feb 4, 2021, at 1:41 AM, josh <joshnatis0 at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> To explain what I mean, take for example, The Tcl War <https://vanderburg.org/old_pages/Tcl/war/>. Other examples: 
>> 
>> Peter da Silva.  Now there???s a name I???ve not heard in a long time.  
> 
> I used to argue with him on comp.arch quite a bit.  Smart dude.

I interviewed with him, for a job that would have involved a bunch of TCL, got the offer, but then decided on grad school instead.

Adam