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Re: Ken Thompson quotes

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Post by craftyguy »

DonHopkins wrote: post #20
denzil_correa wrote: post #2

> I must say the Linux community is a lot nicer than the Unix community. A negative comment on Unix would warrent death threats. With Linux, it is like stirring up a nest of butterflies. Interesting comment on the Linux, UNIX communities.

Death threats for negative comments on Unix??! Pththththt! The Unix Haters Handbook [1] was dedicated to Ken and Dennis, and Dennis [2] wrote the anti-forward [3]. [1] http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf [2] http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/DennisRitchiePthththth... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106271 From: dmr@plan9.research.att.com Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 00:38:07 EST Subject: anti-foreword To the contri…

> Pththththt

I've been trying to figure out what this is supposed to sound like.

Re: Ken Thompson quotes

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Post by combatentropy »

craftyguy wrote: post #71
DonHopkins wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Death threats for negative comments on Unix??! Pththththt! The Unix Haters Handbook [1] was dedicated to Ken and Dennis, and Dennis [2] wrote the anti-forward [3]. [1] http://simson.net/ref/ugh.pdf [2] http://www.donhopkins.com/home/images/DennisRitchiePthththth... [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3106271 From: dmr@plan9.research.att.com Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1994 00:38:07 EST Subject: anti-foreword To the contri…

> Pththththt I've been trying to figure out what this is supposed to sound like.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Blowing_...

Re: Ken Thompson quotes

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Post by acqq »

oxryly1 wrote: post #70
acqq wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The topic was that apparently Google insisted on testing Ken Thompson if he knows C, because policy. Which if true means a stubborn bureaucracy running uncontrolled there. It's like hiring Andrew Tanenbaum and then insisting on him taking a test to check if he "knows" Linux. My question was in sense, did anybody right the wrong, once even the media recognized the absurdity of that particular case.

I think you meant Linus Torvalds.

Thompson created B, not C.

C didn't exist as he wrote the first code of what later was named Unix.

Re: Ken Thompson quotes

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Post by dm319 »

systems wrote: post #28
dm319 wrote: post #10

Some gems: > "I've seen [visual] editors like that, but I don't feel a need for them. I don't want to see the state of the file when I'm editing." -Thompson on the superiority of ed to editors such as today's vi or emacs, as summarized by Peter Salus in A Quarter Century of UNIX (Addison-Wesley, 1994). > The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. and I'm glad linux has…

while i think so highly of ken thompson, and he is probably one of the greatest programmers ever, he is (in my opinion at least) the true father of c and unix but those quotes, are really really bad ... and some are mean too

Yes, the attitude is slightly different with that crowd. They are more cathedral than bazaar.
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