17 Jan
2020
17 Jan
'20
9:24 p.m.
I heard from her as well. So far, no immediate fire danger where she lives
in Australia, but her garden (which may be Australian for lawn) is dying
because of water restrictions.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:52 AM Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
Indeed!!
FWIW I continue recommend it young hackers to read/examine/study before
they try to open something like the current Linux kernel. The MIT xv6 work
to put it on an Intel Architecture just adds to the value.
As the recent thread/argument on the merits/demerits of the use/abuse of
the preprocessor shows - simple and straightforward is easier to understand
regardless of the arguments wrt how helpful the macros can be.
6th Edition is clear and if you want to understand what it takes and how
it works, John's commentary it difficult to be.
On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 9:32 AM Doug McIlroy <doug(a)cs.dartmouth.edu>
wrote:
I learned from Marianne Lions that she's
still receiving
royalties from John's book. What a testimonial to both
John and the system!
Doug
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