Google won't allow the co-inventor of Unix and the C language to check-in code, because he won't take the mandatory language test.
Between 1969 and 1973, Ken Thompson implemented a version of the Multics system at Bell, called Unix, with Dennis Ritchie. At the same time he also developed the C language. The speed and simplicity of C helped Unix spread widely. Both have subsequently become quite popular.
Google hired Thompson to create a new language, Go. But Google also requires all of its recruits to pass a language test. According to Thompson, he hasn't quite got round to it yet - and so can't submit code.
The (unquoted) next paragraph is pretty awesome. So go read it.
Oompa loompas?
(I know what they are, just not why the reference is relevant)
looks like it’s Register-slang for the nameless minions working at Google. frex:
“More evidence has surfaced that Oompa Loompas inside the Google Chocolate Factory are hard at work on something called the GDrive.”
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Those damn Brits!
I played Willy Wonka in a school play when I was 9. Willy Wonka is just one vowel away from something that any British school-kid would find absolutely side-splittingly hilarious. Roald Dahl was good like that.
i need to read some of his books.
A good place to start with Roald Dahl is his collection of short stories, published in the US as The Umbrella Man, which contains the superb and prescient moral tale, The Great Automatic Grammitizator.
Thanks Joel — I did not know about those stories.
i’ll take a look.
i do love the movies that have been made from his books.