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http://wiki.c2.com/?DanWeinreb http://wiki.c2.com/?DanWeinreb Dan Weinreb was the MIT guy; Bill Joy was the Unix partisan. Before he passed away, Dan's blog had
by ts4z 7y ago
http://wiki.c2.com/?DanWeinreb http://wiki.c2.com/?DanWeinreb Dan Weinreb was the MIT guy; Bill Joy was the Unix partisan. Before he passed away, Dan's blog had his side of this story; unfortunately, I can't find it now. Fortunately WikiWikiWeb knows a little!
Edit: found it! https://web.archive.org/web/20121107034606/http://danweinreb.org/blog/the-worse-is-better-idea-and-the-future-of-lisp https://web.archive.org/web/20121107034606/http://danweinreb...
- larrik 7y agoI'm confused why the guy from Berkley (in CA) originally from Michigan is suddenly referred to as "the New Jersey guy".
- gwking 7y agoMy guess is that Bell Labs is in New Jersey.
- LukeShu 7y agoThe essay being quoted compares two design philosophies, the MIT approach: > I will call the use of this philosophy of design the ``MIT approach.'' Common Lisp (with CLOS) and Scheme represent the MIT approach to design and implementation. and the New Jersey approach: > Early Unix and C are examples of the use of this school of design, and I will call the use of this design strategy the ``New Jersey approach.'' (Unix came out of Bell Labs, which is in Murray Hill, New Jersey.) When the anonymized Bill Joy is introduced, it is written that he is "from Berkeley (but working on Unix)". That parenthetical is important because it establishes him as working under the New Jersey approach (and possibly working with people in New Jersey), and therefore as being a "New Jersey guy", despite not physically being located there.