[TUHS] Dennis Ritchie's Dissertation
Larry McVoy
lm at mcvoy.com
Fri Jul 31 10:35:28 AEST 2020
"My graduate school experience convinced me that I was not smart enough to
be an expert in the theory of algorithms and also that I liked procedural
languages better than functional ones."
Amen to that. Me too, I tried functional languages and my head hurt. C
seems so natural to me.
On Thu, Jul 30, 2020 at 05:03:24PM -0700, Kirk McKusick wrote:
> The Computer History Museum has an interesting blog post about
> Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation:
>
> https://computerhistory.org/blog/discovering-dennis-ritchies-lost-dissertation/
>
> Interesting fact is that Dennis never received his PhD because he failed
> to provide a bound copy of his dissertation to the Harvard library.
>
> Kirk McKusick
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