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> Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson I wish Ken writes more papers & documents.
by mfrw 5y ago
> Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson
I wish Ken writes more papers & documents.
- smitty1e 5y agoThat was the only one on the list I had read. Time to hunt down the balance.
- Turing_Machine 5y agohttps://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/3-wise-men.html https://www.ee.ryerson.ca/~elf/hack/3-wise-men.html "Kernighan has written ten times as much readable prose as has Ritchie, Ritchie ten times as much as Thompson. It's tempting to say that the reverse proportions hold for code, but in fact Kernighan and Ritchie are more nearly tied and Thompson wipes us both out." -- Dennis Ritchie
- dolmen 5y agoI think that he has now retired from Google. I fail to find references online. I only vaguely remembers of some tweets that told about that indirectly.