Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!aiai!richard From: richard@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: UNIX history made easy Message-ID: <1218@skye.ed.ac.uk> Date: 12 Oct 89 16:09:21 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: richard@aiai.UUCP (Richard Tobin) Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Lines: 15 In article <11239@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes: >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. You certainly shouldn't call yourself a computer scientist if you don't understand the major principles expounded by these people, but to believe that knowledge of the people is important smacks of episodism. -- Richard -- Richard Tobin, JANET: R.Tobin@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: R.Tobin%uk.ac.ed@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!R.Tobin