Chris Torek

[CrazyBoB]

Wow! I just found a post from Chris Torek from 1985! I think it was
from an old FIDO posting...neat-o anyway...

 

[Seebs]

Wow! I just found a post from Chris Torek from 1985! I think it was
from an old FIDO posting...neat-o anyway...

1985? Wow. That's a ways back. I don't think I encountered him on
Usenet until '88 or so. (Trivia point: He's now one of my coworkers;
we do compiler/toolchain stuff mostly.)

-s

 

[Uno]

Wow! I just found a post from Chris Torek from 1985! I think it was from
an old FIDO posting...neat-o anyway...

Chris Torek's everywhere in C, which I've realized in particular since
I've studied linux, where of course his name is on the letterhead.

Salt Laka City is a small world, and one snowy day I'm gonna bump into
him as we're both grabbing a coffee to go. I'll recognize him by the
coffee stains on his book _File Systems for Starfleet_.

 

[Todd Carnes]

Chris Torek's everywhere in C, which I've realized in particular since
I've studied linux, where of course his name is on the letterhead.

Never heard of the guy... but apparently he likes cats, if the guy at
this site is the same one... <http://67.40.109.61/torek/index.html>

Todd

 

[Jens Thoms Toerring]

On Weld, 27 Jul 2011 21:47:19 -0600, Uno wrote:

Never heard of the guy... but apparently he likes cats, if the guy at
this site is the same one... <http://67.40.109.61/torek/index.html>

Yes, that's him. He used to post here until two or three
years ago and each and every posting was very useful and
helpful - I think all regulars agreed on that (something
not happening too often;-) And his "tutorial" at

http://67.40.109.61/torek/c/index.html

is still very worth reading and understanding. It's a pity
and a loss for this group that he stopped posting here...

Regards, Jens

 

[J. J. Farrell]

Never heard of the guy... but apparently he likes cats, if the guy at
this site is the same one... <http://67.40.109.61/torek/index.html>

Never heard of Chris Torek? The end of the world is nigh ...

 

[Seebs]

Never heard of the guy... but apparently he likes cats, if the guy at
this site is the same one... <http://67.40.109.61/torek/index.html>

That would be him, yeah. He used to post here more, back when he was
at BSDi, or Berkeley before that. I worked at BSDi for a while, and nowadays
we're both in Wind River's Linux group, doing various toolchain and build
system stuff.

Basically, if you use WR Linux, and you think the compiler is wrong, I'm
the guy whose job is to make you not feel bad about finding out your code
was at fault. (Actually, the compiler is sometimes wrong.)

-s

 

[Todd Carnes]

Never heard of Chris Torek? The end of the world is nigh ...

LOL!

 

[tm]

Yes, that's him. He used to post here until two or three
years ago and each and every posting was very useful and
helpful - I think all regulars agreed on that (something
not happening too often;-) And his "tutorial" at

http://67.40.109.61/torek/c/index.html

I find this statements interesting:

Standard C is quite limited. It has no networking, no
graphics, no mouse support; it cannot start processes,
print to printers, and so on.

He distinguish between standard language + standard libraries
and other, maybe nonportable, libraries. What is granted
(standard language + standard libraries) and what may be
available on your OS or with your IDE are different things.

For portable programs granted things are much more important,
than other libraries which may or may not be available under
another OS or compiler.


Greetings Thomas Mertes

--
Seed7 Homepage: http://seed7.sourceforge.net
Seed7 - The extensible programming language: User defined statements
and operators, abstract data types, templates without special
syntax, OO with interfaces and multiple dispatch, statically typed,
interpreted or compiled, portable, runs under linux/unix/windows.

 

[Chad]

Never heard of Chris Torek? The end of the world is nigh ...

Reading a typical Chris Torek response is kind of like when my ex
girlfriend talked about menstrual her cycle. It just kind of goes over
my head after the first minute.

 

[Eric Sosman]

Reading a typical Chris Torek response is kind of like when my ex
girlfriend talked about menstrual her cycle. It just kind of goes over
my head after the first minute.

Your head probably deserved it. <plonk>

 

[Uno]

Yes, that's him. He used to post here until two or three
years ago and each and every posting was very useful and
helpful - I think all regulars agreed on that (something
not happening too often;-) And his "tutorial" at

http://67.40.109.61/torek/c/index.html

is still very worth reading and understanding. It's a pity
and a loss for this group that he stopped posting here...

Regards, Jens

I remember on one particular occasion when Cbfalconer and Keith Thompson
had announced my departure that he crossed that line of stupid orthodoxy
and gave me the 4 paragraphs of what I was looking for.

 

[Uno]

That would be him, yeah. He used to post here more, back when he was
at BSDi, or Berkeley before that. I worked at BSDi for a while, and nowadays
we're both in Wind River's Linux group, doing various toolchain and build
system stuff.

Basically, if you use WR Linux, and you think the compiler is wrong, I'm
the guy whose job is to make you not feel bad about finding out your code
was at fault. (Actually, the compiler is sometimes wrong.)

-s

And here I was looking for the reason that you're a prejudiced prick.

 

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[Bill Cunningham]

Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
.... It's a pity

and a loss for this group that he stopped posting here...

As it seems everyone with any sanity has. Neither does Torvalds or
Dennis RItchie post here.

B

 

[James Kuyper]

Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:
... It's a pity

As it seems everyone with any sanity has. ...

I note that you still post here.

 

[Malcolm McLean]

Jens Thoms Toerring wrote:

... It's a pity


As it seems everyone with any sanity has. Neither does Torvalds or
Dennis RItchie post here.

Some people did a lot of damage to the group. Most of them have now
stopped posting, but we haven't rebuilt yet.

 

[Jack]

Some people did a lot of damage to the group. Most of them have now
stopped posting, but we haven't rebuilt yet.

Yes, it will take a long time for Richard HeathField's poisonous legacy
to be overcome.

 

[Keith Thompson]

Yes, it will take a long time for Richard HeathField's poisonous legacy
to be overcome.

*plonk*