From: "Joseph Holsten" <joseph@josephholsten.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Re.: Princeton's "Unix: An Oral History": who was in the team in "The Attic"?
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 23:31:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <04c68d82-1ed1-4958-9c46-067400e3b7cd@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202210120659.29C6xDvY007440@freefriends.org>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022, at 23:59, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I think it is (used to be?) a common pattern.
>
> Clearly, the metric in both cases should have been the absolute
> value of the number of lines of code changed...
>
> Both stories are rather sad; one hopes that today's world is
> a better place.
I do hope the anecdotes of twitter’s firings based on LoC end up being mistaken.
But I’m also reading Machiavelli’s Discourses on Livy while catching up on TUHS, I’m not sure I believe in better places any more.
And it reminds me of the Pascal quote, “I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter.” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/
--
Joseph Holsten
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-29 7:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-11 11:15 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-10-11 13:48 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 13:59 ` Warner Losh
2022-10-11 19:43 ` Marc Donner
2022-10-11 19:54 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:02 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:08 ` Rob Pike
2022-10-11 21:07 ` Dan Cross
2022-10-11 21:41 ` Rob Pike
2022-10-12 6:59 ` arnold
2022-10-12 7:03 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-12 7:18 ` Rich Morin
2022-11-29 7:31 ` Joseph Holsten [this message]
2022-10-11 20:10 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:14 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:33 ` [TUHS] LOC [was " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-11-07 17:50 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-11-07 19:57 ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-07 20:11 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-08 18:55 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-09 8:41 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-09 8:49 ` arnold
2022-11-09 20:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-09 9:01 ` steve jenkin
2022-11-09 10:55 ` Brad Spencer
2022-11-09 11:56 ` Stuart Remphrey
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