New to Python - block grouping (spaces)

Mel Wilson mwilson at the-wire.com
Sun Apr 19 14:25:59 EDT 2015


On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 03:53:08 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Apr 2015 02:03 am, Rustom Mody wrote:

>> Well evidently some people did but fortunately their managers did not
>> interfere.
> 
> You are assuming they had managers. University life isn't exactly the
> same as corporate culture.

IIRC Thompson, Ritchie, et al. were working at Bell Labs.  Legend has it 
that management would not buy them a Multics, so they were forced to 
write their own using the hardware they had.

	Mel.



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