Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!purdue!haven!adm!cmcl2!phri!ccnysci!dan From: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy Message-ID: <3407@ccnysci.UUCP> Date: 10 Oct 89 17:03:56 GMT References: <20226@usc.edu> <17085@rpp386.cactus.org> <1858@texsun.Central.Sun.COM> <14920@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <1694@muffin.cme.nbs.gov> <17108@rpp386.cactus.org> <11239@smoke.BRL. Reply-To: dan@ccnysci.UUCP (Dan Schlitt) Organization: City College Of New York Lines: 27 In article <11239@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: -In article <17108@rpp386.cactus.org> jfh@rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes: --In article <1694@muffin.cme.nbs.gov> libes@cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes: -->Irrelevant. Any computer scientist worth his salt should know every -->person who has won the Turing Award, and they should have a reasonable -->understanding of why. I don't care if they have never used UNIX. - -The point is, if you don't know who Backus, Dijkstra, Hoare, Knuth, -Thompson, Wirth, etc. are and what their major accomplishments were, -you shouldn't advertise yourself as a professional computer scientist. - Will it be on the final exam? I guess 25 years of university level teaching made me into a terrible cynic. In another article reference was made to physicists and Nobel prize winners in physics. Don't expect better levels of knowledge there. You are bound to be disappointed. The real test is whether the person originally mentioned in this tread now knows who Thompson is, or did he just dismiss it with a question from the same family as that above. -- Dan Schlitt Manager, Science Division Computer Facility dan@sci.ccny.cuny.edu City College of New York dan@ccnysci.uucp New York, NY 10031 dan@ccnysci.bitnet (212)690-6868