Lauren WeinsteinMar 20

There are basically two ways to look at the fact that we're still using many of the same command line tools today that originated on UNIX of around half a century ago:

1) Serious stagnation
2) Ken and Dennis and the rest of the gang in the Bell Labs MH1127 lab, etc. got it right

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Show threadTom BortelsMar 20

@lauren

I continue to be amazed daily at the tricks you can do in sh.

"Look at this python program I wrote to do the thing!"
"Why didn't you just [14 characters of sh gibberish]?"

Show threadThe Penguin of Evil
@tbortels @lauren I converted the original Bourne shell to ANSI C for Fuzix. It's scary, I don't think anyone actually knows how it behaves in all cases
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Show threadJames MorrisMar 20
@etchedpixels @tbortels @lauren Solaris has entered the with no C compiler.