[TUHS] In Memoriam: Edsger Dijkstra, and happy birthday Jon Postel!

Dave Horsfall dave at horsfall.org
Tue Aug 7 10:51:12 AEST 2018


On Sun, 5 Aug 2018, Noel Chiappa wrote:

> The problem with using the number of documents as a gauge for that is 
> that Jon often acted as scribe, so that for many things published under 
> his name, he was acting more as editor.

OK, I'll think of some way of modifying it (I am always open to 
corrections, but preferably offline); you won't believe the number of 
"history" sites I've seen that directly contradict each other (even when 
taking UTC/US/local time into account, and I try and use local time 
wherever possible).

-- Dave



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