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From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: zsh-users@zsh.org
Subject: Re: surprise with echo
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:58:20 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5493CC8C.8020704@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABx2=D-4qvg1WixMPcNtotRCaz8f-c5ubMO8wCEW_tuKuyoDLw@mail.gmail.com>

On 12/18/2014 10:08 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote:
> I think we already have a semi-secret handshake. I joined Sequent 
> Computer Systems around 1991 as a support technician. Because I was 
> the only software engineer on that team I wrote a lot of their support 
> tools. Which included supporting (but mostly arguing against) using 
> Smalltalk as the basis for a expert system to support our customers. 
> Those were the days, as you allude to, when things like a X Window 
> system terminal (i.e., client) was bleeding edge. I've never written a 
> line of code in Occam but remember reading about it and debating its 
> merits. 
I love this historical banter.  How many guys still with the project 
overlapped
with Falstad? Bart of course, anyone else? So vital to have known the 
mind of the
master.


  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-19  6:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-19  1:24 Ray Andrews
2014-12-19  3:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19  3:20   ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19  6:09     ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19  6:30       ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19 17:54         ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19  4:14   ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19  4:39     ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19  5:19       ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19  6:00         ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19  5:57     ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19  6:08       ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19  6:58         ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2014-12-20  2:55           ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20  3:05             ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-20  3:49             ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20  4:40               ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20  5:50                 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19  6:45     ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 11:21     ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-12-20  2:09       ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20  2:58       ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-20  3:55         ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20  5:08           ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-20  5:37             ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20  9:45               ` ZyX
2014-12-19  6:00   ` Ray Andrews

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