[TUHS] Happy birthday, Ken Thompson!
Donald ODona
mutiny.mutiny at india.com
Mon Feb 4 19:43:24 AEST 2019
Ken invented *NIX(up to edition 3 he wrote 100% of the sources), ed(before regexp qed), b (and therefore most of c).
Ken is one of the most underrated persons of all. I hope the day will come, humankind will show respect !
At 3 Feb 2019 20:24:34 +0000 (+00:00) from Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org>:
> Co-inventor of Unix, he was born on this day in 1943. Just think: without
> those two, we'd all be running M$ Windoze and thinking that it's wonderful (I
> know, it's an exaggeration, but think about it).
>
> -- Dave
More information about the TUHS
mailing list