24 Mar
2018
24 Mar
'18
7:26 a.m.
[TUHS] long lived programs (was Re: RIP John Backus
Every year someone takes some young hotshot and points
them at some
"impossible" thing and one of them makes it work. I
don't see that
changing.
Case in point.
We hired Tom Killian, a young high-energy physicist disenchanted
with contributing to hundred-author papers. He'd done plenty of
instrument programming, but no operating systems. So, high-energy
as he was, he cooked up an exercise to get his feet wet.
The result: /proc
Doug