UNIX history made easy

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <17108 at rpp386.cactus.org> jfh at rpp386.cactus.org (John F. Haugh II) writes:
-In article <1694 at muffin.cme.nbs.gov> libes at cme.nist.gov (Don Libes) writes:
->Irrelevant.  Any computer scientist worth his salt should know every
->person who has won the Turing Award, and they should have a reasonable
->understanding of why.  I don't care if they have never used UNIX.
-Somehow I doubt this.  I don't recall having an instructor tell
-me I needed to know who Ken Thompson was prior to teaching data
-structures or interrupt handling.

The point is, if you don't know who Backus, Dijkstra, Hoare, Knuth,
Thompson, Wirth, etc. are and what their major accomplishments were,
you shouldn't advertise yourself as a professional computer scientist.

I don't recall anybody (except possibly you) claiming that attending
college courses in "computer science" sufficed to make one a computer
scientist.