On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 16:08, Richard Esplin wrote: > My two favorite stories about "Real Programmers": > The story of Mel: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html > Seymour Cray: > http://catb.org/~esr/writings/hacker-history/hacker-history-2.html
The story of Cray is quite fascinating. Apparently he was once criticised for using one's complement in his machines when two's complement would be the obviously better notation. He answered that he simply didn't know about two's complement notation and made his machine work with one's complement. Michael > Richard Esplin > > On Wednesday 04 June 2003 22:39, David Smith wrote: > <snip> > > [1] I am not a "real programmer". This is the true definition of a real > > programmer: http://www.shartwell.freeserve.co.uk/humor-site/realprog.htm > <snip> > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael L Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
