From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 15922 invoked from network); 10 Aug 2020 00:53:52 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 10 Aug 2020 00:53:52 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id A7FAB9B6BA; Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:53:50 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9AB19B5D6; Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:53:33 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 571BF9B5D7; Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:53:31 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 99B4C9B5C7 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:53:30 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 539F735E0BB; Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:53:30 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2020 17:53:30 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Dave Horsfall Message-ID: <20200810005330.GX21711@mcvoy.com> References: <202008021340.072Demtg086822@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Subject: Re: [TUHS] BTL summer employees X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" 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.