10 Aug
2020
10 Aug
'20
6:53 a.m.
On Mon, Aug 10, 2020 at 10:48:00AM +1000, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Sun, 2 Aug 2020, Doug McIlroy wrote:
I don't have any up my sleeve, but I've seen this play out over and
over. Some hot shot young kid shows up, the gray beards say "solve
this impossible problem" and half the time they do. It's pretty cool.
Even high-school employees could make lasting
contributions. I am
indebted to Steve for a technique he conceived during his first summer
assignment: using macro definitions as if they were units of associative
memory. This view of macros stimulated previously undreamed-of uses.
I'd like to see an example or two of that...