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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
Cc: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>,
	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 12:54:47 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221011195447.GI11780@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALQ0xCA8djfEVxvxkmtwg0uE+YCEYNh1n7etbuJS=9+3=qPq7A@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 03:43:19PM -0400, Marc Donner wrote:
> So, come annual review time he gets the most negative possible score.
> Why?  Because he produced -480K lines of code.
> 
> So he transferred to the Research Division where his skills were more
> valued and where I met him.

Whoever wrote that review should have been fired.  Absolutely no clue.
Actually, he should have been demoted and had to report to, and learn
from, the guy who wrote the compiler.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-11 19:55 UTC|newest]

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 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 13:59   ` Warner Losh
2022-10-11 19:43     ` Marc Donner
2022-10-11 19:54       ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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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