From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] weird print(2) problems...
From: "rob pike" <rob@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 07:16:53 -0400
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> The parable is silly.  The traditional semantics of "echo" have
> a simple, regular specification, which is not true of an "echo"
> that outputs nothing when supplied with no non-option arguments.

It may be silly but it has a point, as a parable should.  When it was
written, there was no "traditional" semantics for echo, as the parable
makes clear.

-rob