From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, John Lions!
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2018 08:50:09 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9C91DBF6-E535-48A1-8DDF-8AFCF56C23AF@tuhs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.21.1801190920030.74252@aneurin.horsfall.org>
I do :-)
Warren
On 19 January 2018 8:44:10 am AEST, Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:
>Dr. Prof. John Lions was born on this day in 1937; I had the pleasure
>of
>having him as one of my Computer Science lecturers in the early 70s,
>and
>he drilled into us the Principle of Least Astonishment (or POLA),
>better
>known as "why the fsck did it do that?" (but he was far too genteel to
>express it that way). And yes, that's my name in the credits; I helped
>
>with the proof-reading and provided the use of the high-quality printer
>in
>the CSU.
>
>You are not expected to understand this.
>
>--
>Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
>suffer."
--
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
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