22 Jul
2023
22 Jul
'23
5:39 a.m.
On Fri, 21 Jul 2023, Larry McVoy wrote:
I think it was pre-COVID but I had a gathering of
systems people at my
place in the Santa Cruz mountains and Kirk and Eric were there. I ended
up talking to Eric for quite a while and what went through my mind was
"This is so pleasant, I'd hire this guy or happily work for this guy.
He gets C like I do and likes it like I do". It really was super
pleasant to realize I'm not the last guy who wants to use C for
serious work.
I suspect we're dinosaurs but we're cut from the same clothe dinosaurs.
A few pics here, not up to my usual level but whatever:
http://mcvoy.com/lm/2019-bsd-bbq/
I feel like C is one of the only languages worth using for serious code.
Most of my code is still C.
-uso.