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From: cdl@mpl.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
Subject: [TUHS] Just noticed an article on John Lions on Salon.com
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 22:36:13 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404130536.i3D5aDZ13936@opihi.ucsd.edu> (raw)

> From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net>
> To: "'Kenneth Stailey'" <kstailey at yahoo.com>, <tuhs at tuhs.org>
> Subject: RE: [TUHS] Just noticed an article on John Lions on Salon.com
> Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 14:51:11 -0400
> 
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> An interesting discourse on the subject of the gentleman's books. I
> haven't found them, as yet. However, I did find one discrepancy in the
> article. I suppose Dennis Ritchie will comment eventually, but, here
> goes, his name, and Brian Kernighan are mentioned on my copy of the
> book on the C programming language. The only time I've seen the other
> fellow's name mentioned was in regards to another book on UNIX.

By "the other fellow" do you mean Ken Thompson?
If so, you are far behind in your knowledge of Unix history.

    carl
-- 
    carl lowenstein         marine physical lab     u.c. san diego
                                                 clowenst at ucsd.edu


             reply	other threads:[~2004-04-13  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-13  5:36 Carl Lowenstein [this message]
2004-04-13 10:39 ` Gregg C Levine
2004-04-13 11:33   ` Hellwig.Geisse
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-04-14 18:38 Aharon Robbins
2004-04-13 12:13 Roger Willcocks
2004-04-13  5:44 Carl Lowenstein
2004-04-13  0:01 Norman Wilson
2004-04-13  0:19 ` Gregg C Levine
2004-04-12 18:38 Kenneth Stailey
2004-04-12 18:51 ` Gregg C Levine
2004-04-12 22:29   ` Michael Davidson
2004-04-12 23:40     ` Gregg C Levine
2004-04-13  0:58       ` Michael Davidson
2004-04-13  7:20   ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2004-04-13 10:41     ` Gregg C Levine

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