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 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 28387 invoked from network); 11 Oct 2022 13:48:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 11 Oct 2022 13:48:54 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43FF640EDC; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:48:48 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mcvoy.com (mcvoy.com [192.169.23.250]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED15D40920 for ; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 23:48:42 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mcvoy.com (Postfix, from userid 3546) id 3C01535E122; Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:48:42 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 06:48:42 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: Paul Ruizendaal Message-ID: <20221011134842.GA11780@mcvoy.com> References: <992562BA-E21F-4542-A50B-6CFE8F7ACE86@planet.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <992562BA-E21F-4542-A50B-6CFE8F7ACE86@planet.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) Message-ID-Hash: 3UC3HI55YLGM7LIENELD4F5SV4ISBWOM X-Message-ID-Hash: 3UC3HI55YLGM7LIENELD4F5SV4ISBWOM X-MailFrom: lm@mcvoy.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: Re.: Princeton's "Unix: An Oral History": who was in the team in "The Attic"? List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: 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. -- --- Larry McVoy Retired to fishing http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/boat