Sasank's Blog

Dear Leslie,This is Sasank, a former intern of yours at Centre for Optics, Photonics and Lasers, Quebec city. I don’t know if you remember me but I was from IIT Bombay and I interned with you on optical fibre stuff long time back in 2014. I was to...

The intellectual property debate is so hot these days that I can’t wander into a restroom without running across graffiti supporting one side or the other. Some people think that patents and other forms of intellectual property law are the bane of...

UNIX is a general-purpose, multi-user, interactive operating system for the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-11/40 and 11/45 computers. It offers a number of features seldom found even in larger operating systems, including: (1) a hierarchical fi...

The covid-19 situation has given all of us a hard time - both for our physical and mental health. We have been forced to lose a part of our identities. I used to be an avid hiker - especially in the monsoon. This season, I could go only for one tr...

For a number of years I have been familiar with the observation that the quality of programmers is a decreasing function of the density of `go to` statements in the programs they produce. More recently I discovered why the use of the `go to` state...