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ronbrz
God, The Scsh reference manual has my favorite acknowledgements section in all of media. I urge all of you to read this. https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
capital_guy
Olin Shivers was by far the best professor I had in college. Amazing communicator complemented by a great sense of humor
dreamcompiler
I'm proud to be able to call myself a FOO (Friend of Olin.) Not only is he a fine human being, but if you talk to him for 20 minutes you'll learn a couple of years worth of computer science.
ronbrz
I'm jealous! He was my first year computer science teacher, probably the person who most instilled love for functional programming in me. I still at some point want to go back to take a compilers class with him someday. Until then, while you are a FOO I'll be at the BAR :p
[dead] throwaway671239
I have to agree that Olin is a very funny writer but these days I unfortunately find it hard to keep a positive opinion of him as a person because I have heard multiple allegations about regarding sexism and inappropriate behavior towards students from his part.
eismcc
If that were written today there’d be hardcore consequences.