[TUHS] Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software.

[segaloco via TUHS]

> I’ve read that Ken wrote the kernel with an eye to it being a coding exemplar.
> Deliberately wrote consistent, high quality code.

>From UNIX Implementation:

What is or is not implemented in the kernel represents both a great responsibility and a great power.  It is a soap-box platform on "the way things should be done."

- Ken Thompson, 1977

This paper can be found in the BSTJ Vol. 57, No. 6 as well as various "Documents for UNIX" compilations such as the Version 7 manual Volume 2.

- Matt G.