tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10873439.post1094228963325235049..comments2023-10-31T05:11:16.339-05:00Comments on The Nature of the Beast: Here's to engineersUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10873439.post-21347373182174505172007-03-21T21:05:00.000-05:002007-03-21T21:05:00.000-05:00Thanks for your restraint ETBNC...I recall you are...Thanks for your restraint ETBNC...I recall you are one who would know. <BR/><BR/>I missed a chance to meet the admiral when ACM brought her to MIT back in the 70's. I did get to see Mead's laboratory at CalTech but at that time his collaborator was working at Xerox.<BR/><BR/>[I'd swear I put this comment in 2 hours ago but it did not register. might be one of those moths got stuck in the GreenSmilehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07126239521640810895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10873439.post-40360079486990402242007-03-21T19:06:00.000-05:002007-03-21T19:06:00.000-05:00Backus-Naur Form was one of the last things I lear...Backus-Naur Form was one of the last things I learned in my senior year of computer engineering. (Or at least, one of the last things I remember!) That was the class in which a little text-search-and-replace project turned into a crash course in compiler design. <BR/><BR/>If I recall correctly, the rulesets of /etc/sendmail.cf were (are?) pretty much condensed BNF production rules. I etbnchttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03705201307328226917noreply@blogger.com