From: "G. Branden Robinson" <g.branden.robinson@gmail.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Perkin-Elmer Sort/Merge II vs Unix sort(1)
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 22:29:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250118042908.tydtdu2qpqvrxnsl@illithid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWqZJfoQD32Yin1dGn6BN6JLr7fbrvkcggaOw6jNWK55g@mail.gmail.com>
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At 2025-01-17T13:12:23-0500, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> It wasn't a setup. Although Jon's introduction seems to imply that he
> had invited both Don and me to participate, I actually was moved to
> write the critique when I proofread the 2-author column, as I did for
> many of Jon's Programming Pearls. That led to the 3-author
> arrangement. Knuth and I are still friends; he even reprinted the
> critique. It is also memorably depicted at
> https://comic.browserling.com/tag/douglas-mcilroy.
Can an episode of Epic Rap Battles of History be far behind?
Regards,
Branden
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2025-01-17 18:12 Douglas McIlroy
2025-01-18 4:29 ` G. Branden Robinson [this message]
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2025-01-21 21:53 Douglas McIlroy
2025-01-17 17:23 [TUHS] " Diomidis Spinellis
2025-01-17 19:10 ` [TUHS] " Bakul Shah via TUHS
2025-01-17 19:35 ` Marc Rochkind
2025-01-18 14:51 ` Diomidis Spinellis
2025-01-18 15:16 ` Larry McVoy
2025-01-18 15:40 ` Paul Winalski
2025-01-18 16:54 ` Marc Rochkind
2025-01-19 3:45 ` sjenkin
2025-01-18 16:00 ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2025-01-18 16:25 ` Tom Lyon
2025-01-18 17:07 ` ron minnich
2025-01-18 19:39 ` Marc Rochkind
2025-01-17 20:07 ` John Levine
2025-01-18 4:46 ` Dave Horsfall
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