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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by kergonath on Sunday August 21, 2022 @12:18AM (#32537378)
No they should not. They need to live in the same world we do, using the same tools we have. The example being politicians should make one think: do we really need more of this greasy pole and lust for power and freebies in computing? The whole elite mindset is corrosive.

Besides, where would you put the bar for “distinguished”? Who would take the decision?

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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by Aeolos on Sunday August 21, 2022 @02:59AM (#32537990)
Other “distinguished” people, obviously.

Which should make the problems of any such system obvious: it inevitably becomes yet another “in club” for people with connections and power.

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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by mlyle on Sunday August 21, 2022 @11:28AM (#32541114)
> No they should not. They need to live in the same world we do, using the same tools we have.

Grand prizes with honorariums and perks of various kinds are a longstanding tradition with value.

I was mostly kidding, but: Kernighan totally can afford a big internet connection wherever he is. But he chooses not to buy it. The social benefit from him having one likely outweighs the personal benefit from him buying it.

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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by z3t4 on Sunday August 21, 2022 @03:13PM (#32543418)
You should start a fiber/ISP company
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Re:Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk by mlyle on Sunday August 21, 2022 @04:52PM (#32544293)
It would be more of a grand prize with an internet access component. :P

Of course, if I still operated internet access and Kernighan was in my area, I'd definitely comp him a circuit. :P

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