Respect

Thirty years ago, when I first started writing for Doctor Dobb&rsquo;s Journal , I decided to do a piece on the object-oriented features that were being added to MATLAB 5. I didn&rsquo;t know much about them, so I called The MathWorks , told the publicity rep who I was, and asked if they could find me a co-author. A couple of days later I got a call back from a woman who said she had volunteered…