This is one of many jokes and humorous articles I collected, mainly from USENET and similar
sources in the early to mid 1990s. They're really not very interesting nowadays.
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From: y940237@meeli.va.ttu.ee (Margus Freudenthal)
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Subject: Re: When Do You Know You're A Unix Wizard?
Date: 7 Oct 1994 11:24:13 GMT
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Greg Fruth (jetson@mustang.aero.org) wrote:
: Back when I was at UC Berkeley there used to be a sign in the computer lab
: entitled something like "Levels of Unix Prowess". It started out "You know
: you're a Unix newbie when ..." (I can't remember what it said), through
: "acolyte", "magician", etc. up to "You know when you're a Unix Wizard when...
: you're on a first name basis with Dennis and Ken" (as in Ritchie and Thompson).
: At the time I didn't understand more than the first few lines (guess I
: hadn't made it to acolyte yet).
: Does anybody out there have this list?
: TIA,
: --
: Greg Fruth
Well, I have another one, quite similar to that you mentioned:
NAME DESCRIPTION AND FEATURES
beginner - insecure with the concept of a terminal
- has yet to learn the basics of vi
- has not figured out how to get a directory
- still has trouble with typing <RETURN>
after each line of input
novice - knows that "ls" will produce a directory
- uses the editor, but calls it "vye"
- has heard of "C" but never used it
- has had a bad experience with rm
- is wondering how to read mail
- is wondering why the person next door
seems to like Unix so very much
user - uses vi and nroff, but inexpertly
- has heard of regular expressions but never seen one.
- has figured out that '-' precedes options
- has attempted to write a C program but decided
to stick with Pascal
- is wondering how to move a directory
- thinks that dbx is a brand of stereo component
- knows how to read mail and is wondering how
to read the news
knowledgeable - uses nroff with no trouble, and is beginning
user to learn tbl and eqn
- uses grep to search for fixed strings
- has figured out that mv(1) will move directories
- has learned that "learn" doesn't help
- somebody has shown her how to write C programs
- once used sed but checked the file afterward
- watched somebody use dbx once
- tried "make" but used spaces instead of tabs
expert - uses sed when necessary
- uses macros in vi, uses ex when necessary
- posts news at every possible opportunity
- is still wondering how to successfully reply to mail
- writes csh scripts occasionally
- writes C programs using vi and compiles with make
- has figured out what && and || are for
- uses fgrep because somebody said it was faster
hacker - uses sed and awk with comfort
- uses undocumented features of vi
- writes C code with "cat >" and compiles with "!cc"
- uses adb because she doesn't trust source debuggers
- figured out how environment variables are propagated
- writes her own nroff macros to supplement the standard
ones
- writes Bourne shell scripts
- installs bug fixes from the net
- uses egrep because she timed it
guru - uses m4 and lex with comfort
- writes assembler code with "cat >"
- uses adb on the kernel while the system is loaded
- customizes Unix utilities by patching the source
- reads device driver source with breakfast
- uses "ed" because "ex" is a Berkeleyism
- can answer any unix question after a little thought
- uses make for anything that requires two or more commands
- has learned how to breach security but no longer
needs to try
- is putting James Woods/Henry Spencer egrep into her
next Unix release
wizard - writes device drivers with "cat >"
- fixes bugs by patching the binaries
- posts her changes to Unix utilities to the net --
and they work
- can tell what question you are about to ask, and answer it
- writes her own troff macro packages
- is on a first-name basis with Dennis, Bill, and Ken
This one is received with gopher, I don't know the author of it.
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Margus Freudenthal | Anyone else who can be blamed
| should be blamed.
Student of Tallinn | Everything that can go wrong
Technical University | will go wrong faster with computers.
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E-mail: y940237@meeli.va.ttu.ee | be blamed, it should be blamed.
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