From: Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Hume <andrew@humeweb.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 07:25:58 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKzdPgzQbD0u51Kax7gTq9hRQg8YZGWurfdASQHTLC3mPk3vcw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1815F4B8-D6B4-4C71-AC05-27D88C1E580D@humeweb.com>
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I think both factors were relevant, as well as the preciousness and pace of
it all, as discussed by others here.
-rob
On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 1:15 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)?
>
>
> On Aug 9, 2022, at 6:34 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 2:12 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> I still marvel at the productivity and precision of his generation of
>> programmers.
>>
> Amen.
>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-08-09 21:27 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
2022-08-09 18:52 ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 21:25 ` Rob Pike [this message]
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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