Re: Ken Thompson interview in IEEE Computer magazine (fwd)

Chris Ebenezer (chriseb@nortelnetworks.com)
04 May 1999 16:32:21 +0100


Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz@bdk.pl> writes:
: successful in the long run. I've looked at the source, and there are
: pieces that are good and pieces that are not. A whole bunch of random
: people have contributed to this source, and the quality varies
: drastically.
: "
:
: So my understanding is that his opinions are based on reading Linux source
: code, rather than looking at any badly configured Linux system.

Thats the way i read it. Remember KT has spent the years after Unix
exploring ways of creating very elegant systems (Plan9 for example).

-- 
chris

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