From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: scj@yaccman.com (scj@yaccman.com) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:55:47 -0700 Subject: [TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors In-Reply-To: References: <560414A8.2080002@mhorton.net> Message-ID: <4186b45fab3f28605b55591d7d97fd2f.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Lions' books on Unix and PCC were brilliant, although they had limited circulation. I confess that the PCC book was sometimes difficult reading, as code that I cobbled together at 2AM was laid bare to the world. I remember a particularly tangled mess of 10 or so lines that John displayed with the comment "advocates of structured programming might have preferred to see:" followed by 3 short, elegant lines of code... > On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Armando Stettner wrote: > >> I also seem to recall him finish up the paper.  I was lucky in my >> office >> mates: I had John Lions and tjk.  Some place, I have a few pics of >> USG’s >> computer room.  I only recall RP04s however.  :(    aps. > > Dr. John Lions? He was one of my Comp.Sci lecturers, and a brilliant > bloke. > > It was a sad day when we lost him. > > I remember a USENET posting from long ago (yeah, I know), when someone > swore that it was Lyons. Someone then replied along the lines of "Well, > I've just walked past his office door; it's Lions, as in the big cat." > > Of course, my memory could be a little flakey by now. > > -- > Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will > suffer." > Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn! > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs >