On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 12:59:33 -0500 Louis Proyect <[email protected]> wrote: > Bell Labs was a major innovator for many decades, but as > soon as the phone companies were broken up, Bell Labs switched to market > research from pure science or engineering.
I worked for Bell Labs back in the pre-Judge Green glory days, and then again more recently for a short while. What a difference. The place was like Miss Havisham's house: lights out in the corridors, the smell of mildew everywhere. Literal truth. They were still using all kinds of in-house stuff they had invented -- some weird home-brewed database software, a completely useless clunky rule-based language (confusingly enough called Ruby, but in no way resembling the one we all know and either love or don't). It was pathetic: like a club of superannuated Esperanto speakers. All the young turks were like, hey, have you heard of this AJAX thing? Man, that is the shit. -- -- Michael J. Smith [email protected] http://stopmebeforeivoteagain.org http://fakesprogress.blogspot.com http://cars-suck.org _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
