From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Re.: Princeton's "Unix: An Oral History": who was in the team in "The Attic"?
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:48:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221011134842.GA11780@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <992562BA-E21F-4542-A50B-6CFE8F7ACE86@planet.nl>
On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 01:15:38PM +0200, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote:
> There is also another anecdote involving Atkinson. At some point all Apple programmers had to file a weekly report with how many lines of code they wrote that week. After a productive week of refactoring and optimising, he filed a report saying "minus 2,000 lines".
We bonused people for that.
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-11 11:15 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-10-11 13:48 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-10-11 13:59 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-10-11 19:43 ` Marc Donner
2022-10-11 19:54 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:02 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:08 ` Rob Pike
2022-10-11 21:07 ` Dan Cross
2022-10-11 21:41 ` Rob Pike
2022-10-12 6:59 ` arnold
2022-10-12 7:03 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-12 7:18 ` Rich Morin
2022-11-29 7:31 ` Joseph Holsten
2022-10-11 20:10 ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:14 ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:33 ` [TUHS] LOC [was " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-11-07 17:50 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-11-07 19:57 ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-07 20:11 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-08 18:55 ` Marc Donner
2022-11-09 8:41 ` Dan Cross
2022-11-09 8:49 ` arnold
2022-11-09 20:17 ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-09 9:01 ` steve jenkin
2022-11-09 10:55 ` Brad Spencer
2022-11-09 11:56 ` Stuart Remphrey
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