The full audio of that was recorded but was never released -- this is reminding me that I should loop back with ACM to see if they still have it and can release it. In particular, I want to see how long the pause when Arthur responded to my question "What do you think the analog for software is?": I won't give away his answer, but it more or less detonated my brain -- and it took me what felt like minutes (but was surely only seconds?) to put myself back together and ask a follow-up.
I agree with Arthur's answer, but unfortunately it runs afoul of Conway's Law: auteurs have a voice* and are capable of producing software in that style, but large organisations? By necessity, they must produce something qualitatively different, that anyone can slot anything into anywhere, optimised for superficial comprehensibility over elegance.
* sometimes small groups? Doug McIlroy said he was lucky to have managed a software group whose members would sit around in the lunch room and brainstorm (reminiscent of the Little Prince?) not what they could add, but what they could remove.
« Par ma foi, il y a plus de quarante ans que je dis de la prose sans que j'en susse rien, et je vous suis le plus obligé du monde de m'avoir appris cela. » —JBP
it is a f%ck#g shame that CHM failed to do their job and lost the legendary footage of the celebration of KEI. Arthur took the last word and opened with the iconic line “deeds of great men don’t need words, they need more deeds, so i’ll keep it short”. check out who else took the mike that afternoon:
