roblatham

There is indeed a Frank Wilhoit you're thinking of (died in 2010, active in political science and a professor at Drake University)

The Frank Wilhoit quoted in parent is just some random dude who posted a pithy comment on a blog post. so good news, you can engage with the quote without any Kissinger or CIA baggage.

it's an oldie but _Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation_ covers these concepts really well in a language-independent way.

that sounds right to me.. worked universit help desk in the late 90s. wow, the number of distressed people who kept their only copy of their thesis on this one floppy drive that no longer works. some harsh lessons in backups ...

Back in the early 1990s I typed my papers on a Smith-Corona typewriter with a daisy-wheel (Smith Cornoa called them "printwheels" but same thing.

Fall of 1996. guy on my freshman hall says "you should try linux". Installed slackware on everything I had for the next three years until finally switching to Debian.

Fondest slackware memory is installing the media to a Syquest Ezflyer -- but I needed to boot with a bleeding edge linux 2.2 kernel to recognize the parallel port hard drive!

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Argonne National Laboratory has many different research areas. This specific posting is for working in the Math and Computer Science division on the MPICH message-passing library. The world's largest supercomputers rely on MPICH for their parallel programming needs: help us make MPICH better, faster, larger

https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_argonnelab/...

Another good interface to GDB, especially if you like vi-style navigation, is cgdb: https://cgdb.github.io/