From: Steve Nickolas <usotsuki@buric.co>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Cool talk on Unix and Sendmail history, by Eric Allman
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:39:56 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.21.2307211938390.27396@sd-119843.dedibox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230721223017.GA25639@mcvoy.com>
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, Larry McVoy wrote:
> I think it was pre-COVID but I had a gathering of systems people at my
> place in the Santa Cruz mountains and Kirk and Eric were there. I ended
> up talking to Eric for quite a while and what went through my mind was
> "This is so pleasant, I'd hire this guy or happily work for this guy.
> He gets C like I do and likes it like I do". It really was super
> pleasant to realize I'm not the last guy who wants to use C for
> serious work.
>
> I suspect we're dinosaurs but we're cut from the same clothe dinosaurs.
>
> A few pics here, not up to my usual level but whatever:
>
> http://mcvoy.com/lm/2019-bsd-bbq/
I feel like C is one of the only languages worth using for serious code.
Most of my code is still C.
-uso.
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Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-21 18:53 [TUHS] " Rich Morin
2023-07-21 22:14 ` [TUHS] " Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:30 ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 22:33 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-21 22:39 ` Larry McVoy
2023-07-21 23:39 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2023-07-22 4:37 ` John Cowan
2023-07-22 1:48 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-07-22 1:55 ` Jon Forrest
2023-07-22 6:45 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-07-22 14:54 ` Rich Salz
2023-07-22 15:24 ` Warner Losh
2023-07-22 16:12 ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS
2023-07-22 20:52 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-07-30 17:33 Douglas McIlroy
2023-07-30 18:22 Norman Wilson
2023-07-30 21:43 ` Rob Pike
2023-07-30 23:34 ` George Michaelson
2023-07-30 23:59 ` Erik E. Fair
2023-07-31 0:26 ` Warner Losh
2023-07-31 22:57 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-07-31 23:05 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-01 2:45 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01 1:51 ` Niklas Karlsson
2023-08-01 2:47 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-01 3:20 ` Theodore Ts'o
2023-07-31 0:41 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-01 9:22 ` Marc Donner
2023-08-01 10:58 ` Erik E. Fair
2023-08-02 0:37 ` Dave Horsfall
2023-08-02 14:52 ` Ron Natalie
2023-08-02 21:14 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:20 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-08-02 22:37 ` Warner Losh
2023-08-02 23:49 ` Rich Salz
2023-08-02 23:33 ` Dave Horsfall
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