From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen@firemail.de>
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] History of popularity of C
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2020 14:13:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200606211328.GD1635@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8b8d2ff3ed704c5631997387bf78e9b7@firemail.de>
I did one stint at a Java shop, Charles Schwab's web group. No talent,
no architecture, no vision. Lots of politics and back stabbing and
claiming credit for other people's work. Totally toxic, hands down the
worst job I've ever had. I lasted less than 6 months and am surprised
I made it that far.
On Sat, Jun 06, 2020 at 11:08:43PM +0200, Thomas Paulsen wrote:
> 'C was written when the programmer had to be more rigorous instead of
> just letting things slide and having the language do their thinking
> for them. '
> I fully subscribe to that.
> Today the company owners have to pay a lot for programmers having the language do their thinking
> for them. The memory hunger of the soa java business services of the company I worked prior to
> retirement, is sheer endless. Arnold once told that there is more demand for C developers
> in Israel. I envy you
>
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
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2020-05-21 15:27 Tyler Adams
2020-05-21 16:10 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-21 16:30 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-21 17:22 ` John Foust
2020-05-21 20:17 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-21 16:43 ` Tony Finch
2020-05-21 17:35 ` arnold
2020-05-21 19:16 ` CHARLES KESTER
2020-05-21 20:33 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-21 20:09 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-21 20:12 ` Tony Finch
2020-05-22 8:28 ` David Arnold
2020-05-21 20:07 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-21 20:56 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-21 23:45 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-21 23:57 ` Richard Salz
2020-05-22 0:17 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-22 4:10 ` John Gilmore
2020-05-22 14:11 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-22 14:34 ` Richard Salz
2020-05-22 14:17 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-22 7:42 ` arnold
2020-05-22 23:50 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-05-23 7:28 ` Andy Kosela
2020-05-23 17:08 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-23 17:22 ` Richard Salz
2020-05-23 18:42 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-05-23 19:28 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-05-26 4:21 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-05-26 4:32 ` Ed Carp
2020-05-26 8:21 ` Rob Pike
2020-05-26 14:44 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-26 14:32 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-26 19:50 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-05-26 21:48 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-26 22:36 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-05-27 14:37 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-05-27 15:09 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-27 16:11 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-27 19:49 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-05-27 20:13 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-27 20:23 ` Richard Salz
2020-05-27 21:00 ` Nevin Liber
2020-05-27 23:17 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-05 20:57 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-06-05 21:40 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-06-05 21:47 ` Richard Salz
2020-06-05 22:01 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-06 20:49 ` Ed Carp
2020-06-06 21:08 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-06-06 21:13 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-06-06 22:27 ` Ed Carp
2020-06-06 23:14 ` Tyler Adams
2020-06-07 5:57 ` arnold
2020-06-07 9:22 ` Andy Kosela
2020-06-07 9:39 ` Ed Carp
2020-06-07 10:02 ` Brantley Coile
2020-06-07 11:30 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-06-07 15:26 ` Clem Cole
2020-06-07 15:52 ` Larry McVoy
2020-06-08 1:02 ` Adam Thornton
2020-06-08 8:04 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-06-07 17:26 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-07 17:35 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-07 18:50 ` Nemo Nusquam
2020-06-07 21:15 ` Chris Torek
2020-06-07 22:16 ` Dan Cross
2020-06-07 22:56 ` Chris Torek
2020-06-07 23:14 ` [TUHS] Comparative languages Warren Toomey
2020-06-08 0:24 ` [TUHS] History of popularity of C Bram Wyllie
2020-06-08 5:48 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-06-06 23:31 ` Bakul Shah
2020-06-07 0:12 ` Greg A. Woods
2020-06-07 11:04 ` emanuel stiebler
2020-06-07 11:33 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-26 15:19 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-26 16:00 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-26 16:21 ` Christopher Browne
2020-05-26 19:29 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-26 19:55 ` Dan Cross
2020-05-26 20:00 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-05-21 16:18 ` Jim Capp
2020-05-21 18:58 ` A. P. Garcia
2020-05-21 19:02 ` Clem Cole
2020-05-21 18:28 Noel Chiappa
2020-05-21 18:44 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-21 19:06 ` Paul Winalski
2020-05-21 20:27 ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-05-22 8:52 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2020-05-22 9:51 ` Tyler Adams
2020-05-22 11:09 ` arnold
2020-05-22 11:15 ` Tyler Adams
2020-05-22 18:40 ` John Gilmore
2020-05-22 19:01 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-22 19:35 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-22 19:31 ` Larry McVoy
2020-05-22 20:19 ` Michael Kjörling
2020-05-22 14:59 ` Toby Thain
2020-05-22 11:58 ` A. P. Garcia
2020-06-06 21:49 Doug McIlroy
2020-06-06 21:55 ` Warner Losh
2020-06-08 13:56 ` Derek Fawcus
2020-06-08 15:20 ` Richard Salz
2020-06-08 15:30 ` Dan Cross
2020-06-08 16:32 ` Tony Finch
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