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created_at: '2011-10-13T09:02:47.000Z'
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title: 'Rob Pike: An important message from Dennis Ritchie (1981)'
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url: https://plus.google.com/u/0/101960720994009339267/posts/jKyyV1tXD6c
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author: xd
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points: 160
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year: 1981
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The lot of you have had such a huge impact on my life. My father was an
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engineer at Bell Labs back in the day, and I was always very interested
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in his work. When I was 11 or 12, he brought home a terminal (thermal
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printer w/acoustic modem), a K\&R book, and a handful of memos about how
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to work the shell and the text editor. I was hooked. When I finally
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realized my dream of working at Bell Labs myself, I read every technical
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memo I could get my hands on from your group. I don't recall if I had
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the pleasure of meeting you in person,
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echoes my own thoughts. In the late 80s, I worked in the Murray Hill
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comp. center for a few years. It was early in my career, but I was in a
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meeting for a technical committee with which Dennis was also involved.
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At one point he asked my opinion on one of the topics under discussion.
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This made an enormous impression on me, not only encouraging me
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personally -- if my input was of interest to the likes of dmr, I must be
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doing something right\! -- but also as a reminder that the truly great
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put their own egos aside and learn all they can from everyone around
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them.The lot of you have had such a huge impact on my life. My father
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was an engineer at Bell Labs back in the day, and I was always very
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interested in his work. When I was 11 or 12, he brought home a terminal
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(thermal printer w/acoustic modem), a K\&R book, and a handful of memos
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about how to work the shell and the text editor. I was hooked. When I
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finally realized my dream of working at Bell Labs myself, I read every
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technical memo I could get my hands on from your group. I don't recall
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if I had the pleasure of meeting you in person,, but please know that
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your work and your writing were invaluable to me.
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