[ale] Missing photo

[Charles Shapiro]

Oooh hey, just started reading a copy of _The_Innovators_ ( Walter
Isaacson, Simon & Schuster, New York, 2014).  He starts with Countess Ada
Lovelace and goes forward from there. So far Very Fun.  Alas, with a pub
date of 2014 it's already a little out of date.

-- CHS


On Fri, Sep 24, 2021 at 8:58 PM Jim via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> Linus was not!
>
> On 9/22/21 7:53 AM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> > Other than Hopper, all the people were more in the money side of IT.
> >
> > At least no pic of Bezos was up
> >
> > On September 21, 2021 10:59:09 PM EDT, Charles Shapiro via Ale
> > <ale at ale.org> wrote:
> >
> >     Or Dennis Ritchie I suppose.
> >
> >     "Kernighan and Ritchie Wrote It, I Believe It, and THAT SETTLES IT!
> >     <<Brandishing a copy of _The C Programming Language_, Brian
> >     Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, Prentice Hall, 1988>>
> >
> >     Actually, I am more an ANSI C (2nd Edition) kind of guy these days.
> >     But without Dennis, there ain't no Steve. Or Bill, for that matter.
> >
> >     -- CHS
> >     ( Writing a lotta Python Now, but still cherishing the lessons I
> >     learned back Then. )
> >
> >     On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, 09:32 Jim Kinney via Ale <ale at ale.org
> >     <mailto:ale at ale.org>> wrote:
> >
> >         If one makes a parts pilgrimage to the Duluth MicroCenter, the
> >         wall above the CPU and GPU cases is now adorned with photos of
> >         key people in the development of IT as we know it today. Grace
> >         Hopper, Steve Jobs (not Wozniac), Bill Gates, and other
> >         nameable luminaries.
> >
> >         But not Linus Torvalds.
> >         --
> >         Computers amplify human error
> >         Super computers are really
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