Unix Quote (was: Re: building a PDP11 from the things you find at home)

From: Carlos Murillo <cmurillo_at_emtelsa.multi.net.co>
Date: Thu Aug 9 20:49:31 2001

At 03:01 PM 8/9/01 GMT, you wrote:
>> "He who doesn't comprehend UNIX is destined to redesign it poorly."
>> Does anybody know the origin of this quote?
>
>Henry Spencer. He also said "If you lie to the compiler, it will get its
>revenge", which I think is pretty funny, too. Oh, yeah...and his 10
>Commandments of C Programmers is gospel. Helluva guy.

Thanks Ken!

Zane: Yes, it is true that many people think that modern OS's should
follow Unix' path. I'll agree with you in that Unix is not the only
sensible model, and I'll even concede that OpenVMS is another such
model. But you'll have to work to persuade me that DCL is cool.

Carlos.

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Carlos E. Murillo-Sanchez carlos_murillo_at_nospammers.ieee.org
Received on Thu Aug 09 2001 - 20:49:31 BST

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