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From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] mail tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:26:29 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201803240126.w2O1QTB5109348@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)

[TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus
> Every year someone takes some young hotshot and points them at some
"impossible" thing and one of them makes it work.  I don't see that
changing.

Case in point.
We hired Tom Killian, a young high-energy physicist  disenchanted
with contributing to hundred-author papers. He'd done plenty of
instrument programming, but no operating systems. So, high-energy
as he was, he cooked up an exercise to get his feet wet.

The result: /proc

Doug


             reply	other threads:[~2018-03-24  1:26 UTC|newest]

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2018-03-24  1:26 Doug McIlroy [this message]
2018-03-24  1:54 ` Larry McVoy
2018-03-27  9:20   ` Michael-John Turner
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-01-22 12:31 [TUHS] !mail tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org Doug McIlroy

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