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Reading three pages by Ken Thompson takes effort. Retweeting some Snowden meme is easy. What can you say to someone that thinks Ken Thompson has no relevance
by dfc 13y ago
Reading three pages by Ken Thompson takes effort. Retweeting some Snowden meme is easy.
What can you say to someone that thinks Ken Thompson has no relevance in the modern world or thinks he does not need to read something in order to judge if the one sentence he pulled out was taken out of context?
- einhverfr 13y ago> What can you say to someone that thinks Ken Thompson has no relevance in the modern world or thinks he does not need to read something in order to judge if the one sentence he pulled out was taken out of context? That those who do not understand UNIX (or history!) are destined to reinvent it badly (shamelessly stealing from Harry Spencer).
- einhverfr 13y ago> What can you say to someone that thinks Ken Thompson has no relevance in the modern world or thinks he does not need to read something in order to judge if the one sentence he pulled out was taken out of context? That those who do not understand UNIX (or history!) are destined to reinvent it badly (shamelessly stealing from Harry Spencer).
- einhverfr 13y ago> What can you say to someone that thinks Ken Thompson has no relevance in the modern world or thinks he does not need to read something in order to judge if the one sentence he pulled out was taken out of context? That those who do not understand UNIX (or history!) are destined to reinvent it badly (shamelessly stealing from Harry Spencer).