[TUHS] Re.: Princeton's "Unix: An Oral History": who was in the team in "The Attic"?

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Wed Oct 12 05:54:47 AEST 2022


On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 03:43:19PM -0400, Marc Donner wrote:
> So, come annual review time he gets the most negative possible score.
> Why?  Because he produced -480K lines of code.
> 
> So he transferred to the Research Division where his skills were more
> valued and where I met him.

Whoever wrote that review should have been fired.  Absolutely no clue.
Actually, he should have been demoted and had to report to, and learn
from, the guy who wrote the compiler.



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