[TUHS] Questions regarding early Unix contributors

[scj at yaccman.com]

Lions' books on Unix and PCC were brilliant, although they had limited
circulation.  I confess that the PCC book was sometimes difficult reading,
as code that I cobbled together at 2AM was laid bare to the world.  I
remember a particularly tangled mess of 10 or so lines that John displayed
with the comment "advocates of structured programming might have preferred
to see:" followed by 3 short, elegant lines of code...



> On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Armando Stettner wrote:
>
>> I also seem to recall him finish up the paper. Â I was lucky in my
>> office
>> mates: I had John Lions and tjk. Â Some place, I have a few pics of
>> USG’s
>> computer room. Â I only recall RP04s however. Â :( Â  Â aps.
>
> Dr. John Lions?  He was one of my Comp.Sci lecturers, and a brilliant
> bloke.
>
> It was a sad day when we lost him.
>
> I remember a USENET posting from long ago (yeah, I know), when someone
> swore that it was Lyons.  Someone then replied along the lines of "Well,
> I've just walked past his office door; it's Lions, as in the big cat."
>
> Of course, my memory could be a little flakey by now.
>
> --
> Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU)  "Those who don't understand security will
> suffer."
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