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Brian Kernighan is not mentioned in the obituary and nor should he be. Can we please change the HN title?

• ggm 5y ago
  Sure. I changed it. I put it there because I expected some pedant to say "She didn't write eqn, Brian did" There is a very good non-obit by Doug McIlroy, written when Lorinda got an award in 2018. I was going to post it, but it's in a small listserv archive and I think the list members prefer not to be cited into these kinds of thing. I can't find the text elsewhere which is a shame, it has a really good rundown on her time at Bell Labs and the amazing things she did. I guess i could cut-paste it here, but that would exceed a 10% quoting rule I try to stick to. They're Doug's words, not mine.
  • kasey_junk 5y ago
    Thank you.
  • MonkeyClub 5y ago
    It'd definitely be an interesting read, could you pastebin it for us?
    • ggm 5y ago
      4 levels down a comment threat is probably deep enough it doesn't cause problems. The list archive is actually fully publicly visible: https://minnie.tuhs.org/pipermail/tuhs/2022-February/025390.html
      • kasey_junk 5y ago
        That’s really good. Thanks again.
      • gsinclair 5y ago
        Hear hear!