Henry Spencer
Henry Spencer
Henry Spenceris a Canadian computer programmer and space enthusiast. He wrote "regex", a widely used software library for regular expressions, and co-wrote C News, a Usenet server program. He also wrote The Ten Commandments for C Programmers. He is coauthor, with David Lawrence, of the book Managing Usenet. While working at the University of Toronto he ran the first active Usenet site outside the U.S., starting in 1981. His records from that period were eventually acquired by Google to provide...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionScientist
CountryCanada
Belief is no substitute for arithmetic.
MS-DOS isn't dead, it just smells that way.
Politics /n/: from 'poly ticks', short for 'many small bloodsucking insects'.
Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals.
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.
If I must be ruled by larcenous bullies, I much prefer that they be located far away. Local bullies know far more about me and my doings than faraway bullies sitting in offices in Washington, and can oppress me far more effectively.
A bit of tolerance is worth a megabyte of flamming.
C++ is the best example of second-system effect since OS/360.
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
NASA has never had a problem finding capable people to be astronauts. NASA's problem was, and still is, finding ways to cut the list of capable applicants down to a manageable length.
The demise of Constellation is not the death of a dream. It's just the end of an illusion.
The original specifications for Apollo navigation called for the ability to fly a complete mission, including a lunar landing, with no help from Earth - none, not even voice communications.