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From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
Cc: Paul Ruizendaal <pnr@planet.nl>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Re.: Princeton's "Unix: An Oral History": who was in the team in "The Attic"?
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 07:59:31 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANCZdfrY0DHVC+VNcJGKcyYNfHN0uM=OP8z3wm-2dEsDVd8RqA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221011134842.GA11780@mcvoy.com>

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On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 7:49 AM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 01:15:38PM +0200, Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS wrote:
> > There is also another anecdote involving Atkinson. At some point all
> Apple programmers had to file a weekly report with how many lines of code
> they wrote that week. After a productive week of refactoring and
> optimising, he filed a report saying "minus 2,000 lines".
>
> We bonused people for that.
>

I love commits like this, thought it wasn't refactoring so much as deleting
obsolete code...

commit c09981f1422ef0d44042dacc5d1265392fba39f1
Author: Warner Losh <imp@FreeBSD.org>
Date:   Thu Dec 30 20:56:09 2021 -0700

    mips: Remove sys/mips

    Remove sys/mips as the next step of decomissioning mips from the tree.
    Remove mips special cases from the kernel make files. Remove the mips
    specific linker scripts.

    Sponsored by:           Netflix
...
 594 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 134,562 deletions(-)

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-11 14:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-11 11:15 [TUHS] " Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2022-10-11 13:48 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 13:59   ` Warner Losh [this message]
2022-10-11 19:43     ` Marc Donner
2022-10-11 19:54       ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:02         ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:08           ` Rob Pike
2022-10-11 21:07             ` Dan Cross
2022-10-11 21:41               ` Rob Pike
2022-10-12  6:59             ` arnold
2022-10-12  7:03               ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-12  7:18                 ` Rich Morin
2022-11-29  7:31               ` Joseph Holsten
2022-10-11 20:10           ` Larry McVoy
2022-10-11 20:14             ` Michael Kjörling
2022-10-11 20:33               ` [TUHS] LOC [was " Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-11-07 17:50                 ` [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2022-11-07 19:57                   ` Bakul Shah
2022-11-07 20:11                   ` Dan Cross
2022-11-08 18:55                   ` Marc Donner
2022-11-09  8:41                     ` Dan Cross
2022-11-09  8:49                       ` arnold
2022-11-09 20:17                         ` Dave Horsfall
2022-11-09  9:01                       ` steve jenkin
2022-11-09 10:55                         ` Brad Spencer
2022-11-09 11:56                         ` Stuart Remphrey

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