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Creation-Date: 2011-03-27T20:48:43+08:00
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====== Unix and its people ======
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Created Sunday 27 March 2011
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Thompson/Ritchie/Kernighan
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From: dmr@alice.att.com (Dennis Ritchie)
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Subject: re: UNIX
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Message-ID: <11613@alice.att.com>
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Date: 14 Nov 90 05:53:03 GMT
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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I read,
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> Looks like folks are now beginning to credit the
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> development of UNIX to Kernighan and Ritchie, but
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> I thought the principal investigators were
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> *Thompson* and Ritchie. Did something change?
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The differences between Kernighan Ritchie Thompson
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are real but very subtle. We all look alike (middle
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aged with scruffy graying beards). Note these
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distinctions:
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-- Kernighan is slimmest, Ritchie middlest, Thompson
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heaviest in body build
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-- Ritchie got contacts a couple of years ago and so
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is the only current non-glasses wearer
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-- Thompson wouldn't touch netnews with a pole,
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Kernighan secretly gets misc.invest and misc.taxes
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mailed to him, Ritchie reads it more than is good
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for him and occasionally contributes
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-- Ritchie is the only one who has met five people
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who have appeared on David Letterman (Penn,
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Teller, Rob Pike, Mayor Koch, and the guy who
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raised the biggest hog in Ohio)
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-- Kernighan has written ten times as much readable
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prose as has Ritchie, Ritchie ten times as much as
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Thompson. It's tempting to say that the reverse
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proportions hold for code, but in fact Kernighan
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and Ritchie are more nearly tied and Thompson
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wipes us both out.
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Dennis
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