From: George Michaelson <ggm@apnic.net>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Cc: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: Re: [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why?
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 10:50:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040521105004.50ebe366@garlic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <64ed6a29a40d6bd5d271a31085841854@plan9.bell-labs.com>
On Thu, 20 May 2004 20:36:29 -0400 dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote:
> > ... Dennis is quoted as saying `if you want PL/I you know where
> > to find it,' when someone asked for a questionable feature. Does anyone
> > know what that feature was?
>
>In truth I have no idea whether I actually said it
>as an original aphorism, or in what context.
>
> Dennis
computed gotos?
compiling PL/1 was like dealing with assembler: every error masked the other
10,000 errors, so you got next to no repeat-bug find for each compile/edit pass.
the hubris of PL/1 implying either PL/2 or PL/0 was enormous!
(at least C put itself in the emotional range from A to Z slightly further in!
-and paid homage to BCPL..)
-George
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2004-05-21 0:36 dmr
2004-05-21 0:50 ` George Michaelson [this message]
2004-05-21 0:59 ` Rob Pike
2004-05-21 2:13 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 5:33 ` Taj Khattra
2004-05-21 15:35 ` Anastasopoulos S
2004-05-21 16:02 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-22 0:57 ` ron minnich
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-05-20 18:42 rog
2004-05-20 19:21 ` Scott Schwartz
2004-05-20 20:07 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 14:05 ` rog
2004-05-21 15:12 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 16:25 ` rog
2004-05-20 14:59 [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages ¿why? Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 15:22 ` Rob Pike
2004-05-20 15:53 ` [9fans] first capital letter in function names at man pages, why? Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 16:44 ` Russ Cox
2004-05-20 17:20 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 17:31 ` rog
2004-05-20 17:43 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-20 17:50 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 17:20 ` Joel Salomon
2004-05-21 17:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 18:11 ` Jason Gurtz
2004-05-21 18:21 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 17:53 ` rog
2004-05-20 17:54 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 10:28 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-05-21 10:29 ` Dave Lukes
2004-05-21 10:57 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 11:04 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-05-21 12:23 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 12:30 ` Gorka Guardiola Múzquiz
2004-05-21 12:48 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:25 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 14:34 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:27 ` Fco.J.Ballesteros
2004-05-21 14:44 ` splite
2004-05-21 15:24 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 15:29 ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-05-21 16:23 ` Alberto Cortes
2004-05-21 14:50 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-21 15:57 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-24 2:10 ` Micah Stetson
2004-05-24 2:38 ` Greg Pavelcak
2004-05-24 3:47 ` Eric KD5UWL
2004-05-24 15:46 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-24 22:33 ` Micah Stetson
2004-05-21 14:22 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 20:43 ` vdharani
2004-05-20 18:18 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 18:07 ` boyd, rounin
2004-05-20 18:20 ` rog
2004-05-20 23:34 ` Brantley Coile
2004-05-20 17:02 ` Rob Pike
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