From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 21:44:53 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] > I really
Message-ID: <201703270144.v2R1irxm015559@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

> like how blindingly obvious a lot of the original Unix code was
> ...  sort of what you would imagine it to be before you saw it.

That's a facet of Thompson's genius--code so clean and right that,
having seen it, one cannot imagine it otherwise. Odds are, though,
that the same program from another hand would not have the same 
aura of inevitability. As Erdos would say of a particularly elegant

proof, "It comes from the Book," i.e. had divine inspiration.

Doug