by bhasi on 8/17/24, 4:04 AM
David Mackenzie is the author (or co-author) of many basic GNU utilities such as `ls`, `chmod`, `touch`, and many others. I was looking up the manpage for the `install` command today and came across his name listed as its sole author. I had some time to kill, so I looked him up and this fascinating video came up in which he discusses his early life and how he came to work for GNU and wrote all these utilities. I highly recommend watching this till the end.
by pjmlp on 8/21/24, 1:45 PM
His talks are great to watch, and the books on BSD design as well.
by jasoneckert on 8/21/24, 9:18 PM
At 46:10, David is showing an article on AI and UNIX from UnixWorld magazine in 1984 and subtly comments "Nothing new there..."