Among February's receive and transmit are the following:

• 10 projects to start contributing to OpenBSD [4 min]
• Sydney C++ Meetup: Alexander Radchenko "Keep it C-mple" (video) [33 min]
• Brian Will: Object-Oriented Programming is Bad (video) [44 min]
• PyCon 2012: Jack Diederich "Stop Writing Classes" (video) [27 min]
• Joe Armstrong: Why OO Sucks [6 min]
• Bad Engineering Properties of Object-Oriented Languages [7 min]
• Why Objects Suck [2 min]
• Object-Oriented Programming—The Trillion Dollar Disaster [30 min]
• Object-Oriented Considered Harmful [4 min]
• Object Oriented Programming Oversold! [43 min]
• Object-oriented oblivion [5 min]
• The Forgotten History of OOP [14 min]
• Your Code: OOP or POO …

However, something else happened that summer which you won’t find in most history books… a Bell Labs researcher named Ken Thompson created the first version of Unix, which turned out to be one of the most important pieces of computer software ever invented.

This year, we celebrate 50 years of Unix! It was the summer of 1969 that Ken Thompson finished what came to be known as Unix over a three week period when his wife took his kid to visit the in-laws for summer. It wouldn't be hyperbole to suggest that what Ken accomplished literally revolutionised computing.

Bell Labs is …