Xref: utzoo rec.humor:14378 comp.unix.questions:8875 Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!uwvax!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!kaldis From: kaldis@topaz.rutgers.edu (Theodore A. Kaldis) Newsgroups: rec.humor,comp.unix.questions Subject: Re: fun with Unix Message-ID:Date: 18 Aug 88 16:48:01 GMT References: <880@taux01.UUCP> <213@bhjat.UUCP> <1640@uop.edu> <404@cpro.UUCP> <15287@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> <13418@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 19 In article <13418@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> link@stew.ssl.berkeley.edu (Richard Link) writes: > I'm sick (&tired) of "UNIX jokes". As far as I'm concerned, "UNIX jokes" > is merely a statement of reality. > Come on Ken Ritchie, you could have thought better than 'ls' for 'dir'. ^^^^^^^ You are confusing *Dennis* Ritchie, the developer of the C programming language (and co-author, along with Brian Kernighan, of the book of the same title) with Ken *Thompson*, the developer of UNIX (which ironically started out as a *single*-user operating system). -- Theodore A. Kaldis | "Perhaps we may +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- | frighten away email: kaldis@topaz.rutgers.edu | the ghost of so UUCP: {...}!rutgers!topaz.rutgers.edu!kaldis | many years ago U.S. Snail: P.O. Box #1212, Woodbridge, NJ 07095 | with a little Ma Bell: (201) 283-4855 (voice) | illumination . . ."