On 6/6/2015 05:43, shawn wilson wrote:
My first thought on reading that was "who the hell cares if a person knows about internet culture". But than I had to reconsider - it's a very apt way of telling if someone read the right books :)
I would also add Ritchie, Thompson, and Diffie to that list (since you ask about Larry, it's only appropriate).
I find it interesting that I have not note a mention of people like Radia Pearlman and [name advancing years have stolen from me] that wrote a 3 volume set (I think it was) (that I can not find in the post-great-downsizing-bookshelves-disarray at the moment*). *did a little Binging--Not W. Richard Stevens although the subconscious thinks "steven" might have been the first name. NO! Douglas E. Comer "Internetworking with TCP/IP" (Nice try subconscious! Volume 3 is co-authored by David L. Stevens.) -- sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Juvenal)