Paul Graham has an essay somewhere where he describes Robert Morris (creator of the Morris worm, kernel hacker, professor at MIT) as the FreeBSD sys admin for V

Paul Graham has an essay somewhere where he describes Robert Morris (creator of the Morris worm, kernel hacker, professor at MIT) as the FreeBSD sys admin for ViaWeb :) That is, probably the "most overqualified" sys admin in the world, because he was owning the whole problem. ---- The OP's post is related to the motivation for my work on https://www.oilshell.org/ https://www.oilshell.org/ -- I found that shell solves important problems quickly and effectively. In contrast, in 1999, in college, I worked an an autonomous underwater vehicle project that didn't work very well. In 2021, I still think that autonomous vehicles don't work very well. I also have a Erdos number of 3 due to a 2016 publication on deep learning, but that was mostly due to shell scripts as well. The publication has thousands of citations but I'm unsure if it will ever be useful. The author of Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud bravely stated that publications from the same group (Google Brain), with common co-authors, are bullshit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27331807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27331807