From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To: Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>,
Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Bringing a Chainsaw
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2022 14:49:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <F903EC66-9C12-401B-9F02-7398C03894DF@cfcl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALQ0xCDNPa6j94hn1xkkPEqd_L2SBbZUbrqqd89iG7hSAhE1zg@mail.gmail.com>
> On Dec 9, 2022, at 13:49, Marc Donner <marc.donner@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> ... I described what my regression test suite did and her face lit up. “What a great idea!” she exclaimed. ...
Reminded me of this gem:
“What a failure of imagination!”
-- Dennis M. Ritchie, “The Evolution of the Unix Time-sharing System”, AT&T Bell Laboratories Technical Journal 63(6), Part 2, Oct. 1984, pp.1577–93
-r
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-12-09 22:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-12-09 21:49 [TUHS] " Marc Donner
2022-12-09 22:49 ` Rich Morin [this message]
2022-12-10 6:54 ` [TUHS] " John Cowan
2022-12-10 9:10 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-10 16:54 ` Adam Sampson
2022-12-10 17:15 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-11 22:23 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-11 22:47 ` John Cowan
2022-12-11 22:50 ` Marc Donner
2022-12-12 1:32 ` John Cowan
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