Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!border2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer2.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2016 15:34:08 -0500 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education References: Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2016 21:34:08 +0100 Message-ID: <87k2h2xxz3.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:AmpRhJDiHJ2yNr+8ls73g/nkg8U= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 12 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-rgE0x1tr4uTB6i3LAJj1O+v6XQ0uKNQlacwnTfwopqvOeSLcRx9EIT3eE+yBlHboWd5Dolvf1LI2N+1!C5Pm3btNBWjWpFz34Hjoh9WT1CK24kCDisBiBa6C/xjJECuSndCpWTmcBmBPp0DwM0tRyQ== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1526 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:89986 Keith Thompson writes: >> I believe he spelt it "Dennis". But the name is actually "Dionysius", >> from the god of wine. That's what he would have been called when >> he received his degree, at least at Oxford, I imagine the American >> Ivy Leagues follow the same convention. > > If that's a joke, I don't get it. If it's not a joke, citation needed. It's absolute bollocks, is what it is. No such convention exists. #MalcKnowledge