Some history. I was at Sun and Bob Hagmann was teaching at Stanford and got me to be a TA there. He retired and Stanford asked me if I would teach CS240B so I did. Jeff Bonwick was student and I recognized his ability and recruited him to Sun. He said "I have no experience programming in C" and I said "You are smart. I can teach you C, I can't teach you smart".

I also told him that he'd go way farther at Sun than I did and I was right, I think he made DE, I didn't. He played the game better. Smart guy. Him, Bryan, Bill Moore, those guys were the new Sun in my mind.