UNIX history made easy

[Richard Tobin]

In article <11239 at smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn at brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>The point is, if you don't know who Backus, Dijkstra, Hoare, Knuth,
>Thompson, Wirth, etc. are and what their major accomplishments were,
>you shouldn't advertise yourself as a professional computer scientist.

You certainly shouldn't call yourself a computer scientist if you don't
understand the major principles expounded by these people, but to
believe that knowledge of the people is important smacks of episodism.

-- Richard

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