On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 03:53:08 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 02:03 am, Rustom Mody wrote:
>> Well evidently some people did but fortunately their managers did not >> interfere. > > You are assuming they had managers. University life isn't exactly the > same as corporate culture. IIRC Thompson, Ritchie, et al. were working at Bell Labs. Legend has it that management would not buy them a Multics, so they were forced to write their own using the hardware they had. Mel. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list