From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: dave@horsfall.org (Dave Horsfall) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2018 11:52:41 +1100 (EST) Subject: [TUHS] Happy birthday, Ken Thompson! In-Reply-To: References: <184378368.23385.1517692373907.JavaMail.tomcat@india-live-be03> Message-ID: On Sat, 3 Feb 2018, Andy Kosela wrote: > I always admired Ken's passion for minimalism and elegant, simple > solutions to IT problems.  Ed(1) will always be the most beautiful > editor ever written. And the one editor that every sysadmin should know. I still use "expr" in my shell scripts, for example, because I don't know how portable the Penguin "${...}" construct is. [...] > Linux and FreeBSD are now two monstrous trolls, bloated and extremely > complex and large. Looking through /usr/include/***.h, I see: FreeBSD 10.4: #define SYS_MAXSYSCALL 548 MacOS Sierra: #define SYS_MAXSYSCALL 522 Debian 8.10: I don't know where the Penguins have hidden it... > I am glad Rob and Ken gave us Go.  It breathed a new life into the > complex world of writing software. That's the second endorsement I've seen for Go; I guess I should learn it. And yes, I've read the amusing story on Wikipedia :-) I'm becoming annoyed at Perl's bloatedness (I'd hate to see Perl 6), don't like Python's silly indentation (although some swear by it), and looking at Ruby for stuff where I used to use Perl. -- Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will suffer."