Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!nrl-cmf!ames!oliveb!sun!chiba!khb From: khb%chiba@Sun.COM (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: String lengths Message-ID: <89055@sun.uucp> Date: 9 Feb 89 02:47:12 GMT References: <8876@alice.uucp> <8442@aw.sei.cmu.edu> <88850@sun.uucp> <88853@sun.uucp> <37529@oliveb.olivetti.com> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: khb@sun.UUCP (Keith Bierman - Sun Tactical Engineering) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 33 In article <37529@oliveb.olivetti.com> chase@Ozona.UUCP (David Chase) writes: >.... >Sigh. Nonetheless, he (Dennis Ritchie) probably made a mistake in his >posting. Other Prinicipal Inventors are still alive and also left >unambiguous notes. Also, I'd suggest that Robert Firth knows BCPL >better than Dennis Ritchie. (I'd suggest that *I* know BCPL better >than Dennis Ritchie, too -- I've used it within the last 4 years.) >I'll give references. > It was pointed out to me (private mail) that what made the situation so funny was that dmr recanted, and that then someone came along and castigated Firth. I had failed to keep all the threads in mind. I do not claim to know BCPL, and I don't claim to be expert on dmr's thoughts. As I saw it, the argument was what was going on in dmr's thoughts....and since dmr is very much alive speculating is not very fruitful. As it happens, the speculator was right...... Just goes to show. I hereby repudiate my position. Debating what when on in somebody's mind a decade+ ago is valid...because the thinker probably doesn't remember it correctly! :> khb Keith H. Bierman It's Not My Fault ---- I Voted for Bill & Opus