From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] BTL summer employees
Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:53:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200810005330.GX21711@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.9999.2008101044110.3620@aneurin.horsfall.org>
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:48:00AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Doug McIlroy wrote:
>
> >Even high-school employees could make lasting contributions. I am
> >indebted to Steve for a technique he conceived during his first summer
> >assignment: using macro definitions as if they were units of associative
> >memory. This view of macros stimulated previously undreamed-of uses.
>
> I'd like to see an example or two of that...
I don't have any up my sleeve, but I've seen this play out over and
over. Some hot shot young kid shows up, the gray beards say "solve
this impossible problem" and half the time they do. It's pretty cool.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-10 0:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-02 13:40 Doug McIlroy
2020-08-02 13:57 ` arnold
2020-08-02 17:13 ` Doug McIlroy
2020-08-03 9:24 ` arnold
2020-08-02 15:12 ` Robert Diamond
2020-08-02 19:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-03 5:14 ` Heinz Lycklama
2020-08-03 12:55 ` John P. Linderman
2020-08-03 16:26 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-08-10 0:48 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-08-10 0:53 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-08-10 6:33 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-08-10 12:53 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-10 13:21 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2020-08-10 14:02 Noel Chiappa
2020-08-10 17:08 ` Lawrence Stewart
2020-08-10 18:13 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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