Path: csiph.com!au2pb.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: [Poll] Computing favorities Date: 24 Aug 2015 20:44:28 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <73737b3c-a042-4ed3-bb70-ca9bd4e8f2d3@googlegroups.com> Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net aLVwxIWRYCnVFc+a2ukOdw9FiDWPNYgtxb6tmT1JEk3qTaeN5t Cancel-Lock: sha1:poe26HQdfT1jLUCI3nrwggZnlm0= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com comp.misc:8500 On 2015-08-24, fmassei@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, August 19, 2015 at 8:31:35 PM UTC+2, Bill Cunningham wrote: >> I just thought I'd post a poll out of curiosity about computing legends. >> I think my all time favorite is Dennis Ritchie. Unixes and their descendants >> all the *nixs seem to have derived from his work. And I must mention Ken >> Thompson too. Unix might have been his idea. And C. That's definately >> Richie. RIP Dennis. >> >> Anyone else have any favorites or legends to mention? Oh yes I consider >> Babbage a pioneer too. >> > > If I must pick one, Bill Joy. Didn't he write [shudder] vi? -- Today is Sweetmorn, the 17th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3181 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.