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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] Bugs in V6 'dcheck'
Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 13:16:17 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140531171617.GB10214@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140531161620.GL28034@mcvoy.com>

Larry McVoy scripsit:

> I love Rob Pike, he's spot on on a lot of stuff.  I'm a big fan of
> "if you think you need threads then your processes are too fat".

Oh, he's a brilliant fellow.  I don't know him personally, but I know
people who do, and I don't think I'd love him if I knew him.  Humanity has
always found it useful to keep its (demi)gods at arm's length at least.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
Barry thirteen gules and argent on a canton azure fifty mullets of five
points of the second,  six, five, six, five, six, five, six, five, and six.
        --blazoning the U.S. flag



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-31 17:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-31 13:30 Norman Wilson
2014-05-31 16:03 ` John Cowan
     [not found]   ` <20140531161620.GL28034@mcvoy.com>
2014-05-31 17:16     ` John Cowan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2014-06-03 17:33 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-06-02  3:34 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-02  4:05 ` Mary Ann Horton
2014-06-02  6:12 ` arnold
2014-06-03 12:11 ` emanuel stiebler
2014-06-02  3:18 Noel Chiappa
2014-06-02  2:14 Michael Spacefalcon
2014-06-02  2:51 ` John Cowan
2014-05-31 23:24 Doug McIlroy
2014-06-01  0:17 ` Kevin Schoedel
2014-06-01 22:54   ` scj
2014-06-01 23:48 ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-02  1:11   ` Ronald Natalie
2014-06-02  2:10     ` A. P. Garcia
2014-06-03 16:38 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2014-05-31 15:55 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 16:18 ` Ron Natalie
2014-05-31 14:19 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 13:15 Noel Chiappa
2014-05-31 13:23 ` Ronald Natalie
2014-05-31 18:58 ` Tim Newsham
2014-05-31 19:48 ` Clem Cole

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