12 Apr
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12 Apr
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6:38 p.m.
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/30/lions/
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12 Apr
6:51 p.m.
Hello from Gregg C Levine
An interesting discourse on the subject of the gentleman's books. I
haven't found them, as yet. However, I did find one discrepancy in the
article. I suppose Dennis Ritchie will comment eventually, but, here
goes, his name, and Brian Kernighan are mentioned on my copy of the
book on the C programming language. The only time I've seen the other
fellow's name mentioned was in regards to another book on UNIX.
Outside of that, it's a very well written article.
I'll probably end up searching Alibris, www.alibris.com for the books,
or related ones.
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Subject: [TUHS] Just noticed an article on John Lions on Salon.com
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/1999/11/30/lions/
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10:29 p.m.
Hello from Gregg C Levine
An interesting discourse on the subject of the gentleman's books. I
haven't found them, as yet. However, I did find one discrepancy in the
article. I suppose Dennis Ritchie will comment eventually, but, here
goes, his name, and Brian Kernighan are mentioned on my copy of the
book on the C programming language. The only time I've seen the other
fellow's name mentioned was in regards to another book on UNIX.
I'm not sure what discrepancy you are referring to - the article looked
quite accurate to me.
Which particular "other fellow" are you thinking of?
11:40 p.m.
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Um this fellow, Ken Thompson. According to my copy of the book on the
C programming language, only Brian Kernighan, and David Ritchie, are
mentioned. Ken Thompson, is only mentioned as being a partner in the
creation of UNIX, I think he was a co-author in the book mentioned in
titles pages, describing the UNIX programming environment.
And yes, the rest of the article did look okay, around that.
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] Just noticed an article on John Lions on
Salon.com
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> An interesting discourse on the subject of the gentleman's books.
I
> haven't found them, as yet. However, I did
find one discrepancy in
the
> article. I suppose Dennis Ritchie will comment
eventually, but,
here
> goes, his name, and Brian Kernighan are mentioned
on my copy of
the
> book on the C programming language. The only time
I've seen the
other
fellow's
name mentioned was in regards to another book on UNIX.
I'm not sure what discrepancy you are referring to - the article quite accurate to me.
Which particular "other fellow" are you thinking of?
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13 Apr
12:58 a.m.
Hello from Gregg C Levine
Um this fellow, Ken Thompson. According to my copy of the book on the
C programming language, only Brian Kernighan, and David Ritchie, are
mentioned. Ken Thompson, is only mentioned as being a partner in the
creation of UNIX,
Yes, I thought you might have been referring to Ken Thompson, but I wasn't
sure.
The Salon article refers to:
"Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie, the two Bell Labs employees who created
Unix and the C programming language"
I suspect that the only real inaccuracy here is that (as both Dennis and Ken
would
be quick to point out) UNIX was the result of a collaborative effort
involving
more than just two people, but if one had to pick just two names then they
would
undoubtedly have to be Ritchie and Thompson ...
... and if Thompson isn't normally closely associated with the development
of C
it's worth remembering that without "B" there would have been no
"C" ...
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