UNIX Futures

[Ipse dixit]

In article <168 at desint.UUCP> geoff at desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>The reason Dennis Ritchie qualifies as a genius is because when we say
>"it sure would be nice to..." to him, he responds "yup, sure would"
>instead of "hey, yeah, I'll go hack it in."

Reluctance to introduce new "features", sure, that is important.  But I
think also it's more hindsight than foresight. You have to be able to
see how other people's hacks miss the mark to come up with a
simplifying/unifying concept.  But it still takes genius.

There was a paper on Unix hacker types - innovator, fixer,
consolidator, etc.  in some past Usenix proceedings. Anyone have the
reference?

	Ken
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