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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation
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"My graduate school experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to
be an expert in the theory of algorithms and also that I liked procedural
languages better than functional ones."

Amen to that.  Me too, I tried functional languages and my head hurt.  C
seems so natural to me.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 05:03:24PM -0700, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> The Computer History Museum has an interesting blog post about
> Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation:
> 
> https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
> 
> Interesting fact is that Dennis never received his PhD because he failed
> to provide a bound copy of his dissertation to the Harvard library.
> 
> 	Kirk McKusick

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