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Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education

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Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> writes:
> On Sunday, July 3, 2016 at 6:38:40 PM UTC+1, Charles Richmond wrote:
>> "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> wrote in message 
>> news:nl966b$c57$1@dont-email.me...
>> >    I was told that DMR' thesis was in "recursive functions". Now I've 
>> > always assumed maybe being wrong that back then this may have been a 
>> > mathematics recursive functions and he was a Mathematician. Does anyone 
>> > know if his PhD was mathematics or computer science?
>> >
>> 
>> Dennis Ritchie, *not* Denis Ritchie ...
>> 
> 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.

(Yes, the name Dennis apparently is derived from Dionysius.  That
doesn't mean Dionysius is "actually" Dennis Ritchie's name.)p

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[OT] Denis Ritchie Education "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2016-07-02 15:54 -0400
  Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-07-02 14:20 -0700
  Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-02 14:42 -0700
  Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Lew Pitcher <lew.pitcher@digitalfreehold.ca> - 2016-07-02 17:43 -0400
    Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-07-03 00:40 +0100
    Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2016-07-03 17:06 -0400
  Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-07-03 12:38 -0500
    Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-07-03 10:54 -0700
      Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2016-07-03 12:52 -0700
        Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-07-03 21:34 +0100
          Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2016-07-03 17:09 -0400
        Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2016-07-03 17:07 -0400
  Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Malcolm McLean <malcolm.mclean5@btinternet.com> - 2016-07-04 16:09 -0700
  Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "Bill Cunningham" <nospam@nspam.invalid> - 2016-07-04 15:37 -0400
  Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-07-31 05:30 -0400
    Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-07-31 12:40 -0700
      Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-07-31 16:58 -0400
        Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-07-31 15:13 -0700
          Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-07-31 21:21 -0400
            Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-08-01 08:12 -0700
        Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-31 16:41 -0600
          Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-07-31 21:24 -0400
            Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-07-31 22:15 -0600
              Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-08-01 09:38 -0400
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-01 10:18 -0600
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-08-01 16:22 -0400
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-01 15:05 -0600
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-08-04 14:01 -0400
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-04 12:22 -0600
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-08-04 16:47 -0400
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-08-04 14:22 -0500
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-08-04 16:52 -0400
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2016-08-04 16:10 -0500
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2016-08-04 20:30 -0400
      Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education luser droog <luser.droog@gmail.com> - 2016-07-31 18:20 -0700
      Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-08-01 19:52 +0100
        Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-08-01 15:25 -0700
          Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-01 16:38 -0600
            Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-08-01 15:56 -0700
              Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-01 17:41 -0600
              Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 06:22 +0100
        Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-08-01 16:48 -0700
          Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-08-02 06:27 +0100
            Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-02 08:42 -0600
              Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-08-02 16:28 +0100
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-08-02 11:15 -0600
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-08-02 19:37 +0100
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-08-02 12:08 -0700
                Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2016-08-02 22:40 +0100
            Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2016-08-03 06:57 -0700
            Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-10-30 09:06 -0400
              Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education supercat@casperkitty.com - 2016-10-30 12:42 -0700
              Re: [OT] Denis Ritchie Education Gareth Owen <gwowen@gmail.com> - 2016-10-31 18:12 +0000

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