Re: [TUHS] Any Good dmr Anecdotes?

Several decades ago, Jim Joyce of San Francisco was one of the more colorful chaps in the UNIX scene. Among other ventures he had "The Independent UNIX Bookstore", and during Usenix conferences he would rent a nearby hotel suite to sell his books to the conference attendants. Jim once told me the following story (yes, the topic is about dmr anecdotes). One day a young man came to the hotel suite and asked, in a somewhat exaggerated voice, "the best book to learn C programming". Jim pointed at a gentleman in a nearby armchair, reading, and said: "ask that gentleman because he knows everything there is to know about C". So the young man approached said gentleman, and repeated his question. The answer he got was: "Sorry, I can't help you, because I never had to learn C". Which left the young man flabbergasted. -- Hendrik-Jan Thomassen <hjt(a)ATComputing.nl> AT Computing Linux opleiders & consultants Kerkenbos 1238 Tel +31 24 352 72 82 6546 BE Nijmegen www.atcomputing.nl 'If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.'