From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2018 21:26:29 -0400
Subject: [TUHS] mail tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Message-ID: <201803240126.w2O1QTB5109348@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

[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