Conversations w/ Computing's historical personages (was: Historical origin of cron's day-of-month/weekday behavior?)

[Kevin D. Clark]

Joshua Judson Rosen writes:

> This has always been one of my favourite things about the unix world--
> and, to some extent, computing in general: that the founders are
> still around, and many of them even *respond to e-mail*.
> The analogies for other domains are things like `exchanging
> post-cards with Thomas Jefferson or Florence Nightingale'.

I agree with this sentiment as well.

A long time ago I sent email to the late, great W. Richard Stevens,
and *he responded*.  I was totally blown away by this.  I never
expected a reply.  I went on to pretty much immerse myself in his
books, and, in terms of technical things to do, there are few better
things in this world to play around with the stuff that Rich Stevens
presented in his books.

Regards,

--kevin
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