21 Nov
2019
21 Nov
'19
7:04 p.m.
Not everyone at the labs had a three-letter login. Bjarne Stroustrup had the login bs,
despite several gentle suggestions from myself and others that he add a middle initial...
Steve
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On Nov 21, 2019, at 5:18 AM, William Cheswick
<ches(a)cheswick.com> wrote:
BTW, Bob Morris was not a Senior, and had no middle name. It is my understanding that
he inserted an “h” when a middle initial was demanded at the Labs, hence “rhm”.
His son is Robert Tappan Morris, Labs login and general tag “rtm," is not a junior.
(I had to fight spelling correction on this Mac so much for this post that I have turned
it off.)
On Nov 12, 2019, at 8:43 PM, John P. Linderman
<jpl.jpl(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Lorinda Cherry told me that that RTM (senior) used to test people's programs by
feeding them to themselves as input, a.out < a.out. It helped cure people of the
assumption that a program would only see "reasonable" inputs.