28 Sep
2015
28 Sep
'15
6:55 p.m.
Lions' books on Unix and PCC were brilliant, although they had limited
circulation. I confess that the PCC book was sometimes difficult reading,
as code that I cobbled together at 2AM was laid bare to the world. I
remember a particularly tangled mess of 10 or so lines that John displayed
with the comment "advocates of structured programming might have preferred
to see:" followed by 3 short, elegant lines of code...
On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Armando Stettner wrote:
I also seem to recall him finish up the paper.
 I was lucky in my
office
mates: I had John Lions and tjk. Â Some place, I have a few pics of
USGâs
computer room. Â I only recall RP04s however. Â :( Â Â aps.
Dr. John Lions? He was one of my Comp.Sci lecturers, and a brilliant
bloke.
It was a sad day when we lost him.
I remember a USENET posting from long ago (yeah, I know), when someone
swore that it was Lyons. Someone then replied along the lines of "Well,
I've just walked past his office door; it's Lions, as in the big cat."
Of course, my memory could be a little flakey by now.
--
Dave Horsfall DTM (VK2KFU) "Those who don't understand security will
suffer."
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn!
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