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From: Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com>
To: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 14:26:43 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MU8=Sf-i3Ljq7en3q81USpk_P3WtnYQTgBaGT2kB9cNQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1815F4B8-D6B4-4C71-AC05-27D88C1E580D@humeweb.com>

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On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 11:15 AM Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com> wrote:

> rob, clem:
>
> has there been a shift in ability? or is this more likely a sampling bias
> (because there were so many fewer programmers then)?
>
Certainly part of it.  But I think was more likely the type of person than
the number.   In those days because the tools and use of them required
extreme precision, only the precise found their way.

What's the Pixar Incredible's line:   *If everyone is super, no one will
be.*
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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-09 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-23  2:57 [TUHS] Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num? segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23  5:56 ` [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2022-07-23  7:55   ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23 11:01     ` Dan Cross
2022-07-23 11:20       ` John Cowan
2022-07-23 12:00         ` Dan Cross
2022-07-23 12:49           ` Norman Wilson
2022-07-23 13:20             ` Rob Pike
2022-07-23 13:36               ` Ralph Corderoy
2022-07-23 14:33               ` John Cowan
2022-07-24 19:45               ` Warner Losh
2022-07-24 20:33                 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-24 21:04                   ` Warner Losh
2022-07-23 17:35             ` Clem Cole
2022-07-23 18:40               ` Phil Budne
2022-07-23 18:51                 ` Nelson H. F. Beebe
2022-07-23 19:07                   ` Douglas McIlroy
2022-07-24 19:02           ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28  0:30             ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28  1:03               ` Phil Budne
2022-07-28  4:13                 ` [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO William H. Mitchell
2022-07-29  4:28                   ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-07-29  5:07                   ` Tomasz Rola
2022-08-09  5:12                     ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2022-08-09  6:11                       ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 13:34                         ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 15:15                           ` Andrew Hume
2022-08-09 18:26                             ` Clem Cole [this message]
2022-08-09 18:52                             ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 21:25                             ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 15:39                           ` Richard Salz
2022-08-09 13:56                         ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 16:45                         ` William H. Mitchell
2022-07-29  0:22                 ` [TUHS] SNOBOL and progeny [Was: Re: Re: Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num?] Stuff Received
2022-07-29  5:01                   ` [TUHS] " Charles H. Sauer
2022-07-29 14:07                     ` John Cowan
2022-07-29 15:37                   ` Dave Plonka
2022-08-09 17:42 [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO Noel Chiappa
2022-08-09 18:49 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 18:54   ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 19:00     ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 19:21       ` Marshall Conover
2022-08-09 20:19         ` Warner Losh
2022-08-10 21:13 ` Bill Cheswick
2022-08-10 21:30   ` John Cowan
2022-08-11 16:08     ` Marc Donner
2022-08-09 22:18 Douglas McIlroy
2022-08-09 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 15:05 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:14   ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 17:37     ` arnold
2022-08-10 18:24       ` joe mcguckin

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