From: arnold@skeeve.com
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Musings on Interfaces
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 12:05:11 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201609011805.u81I5BiW008420@freefriends.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1C124082-73AD-459B-9522-947F66688204@me.com>
Steve was borrowing:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALGOL :
C. A. R. Hoare remarked: "Here is a language so far ahead of its
time that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors but
also on nearly all its successors."
(This one is also mostly true. :-)
Arnold
Brantley Coile <brantleycoile@me.com> wrote:
> Steve Bourne said it about 7th Edition. I just asked him. He also said it turned out to be mostly true.
>
> > On Sep 1, 2016, at 12:36 PM, Adriano Verardo <adr.verardo@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Brantley Coile wrote:
> >>
> >> I’m very grateful to still be using these tools. It’s a very personal thing but for someone who first used 6th Edition Unix, ed and the old shell, and used all the versions of Unix that followed, these tools, both acme and sam, rio and 8 1/2, are an improvement to all that proceeded them and followed them.
> > Cool.
> > Who said "Unix v7 (or 6 ?) is the major improvement of all subsequent releases" ?
> > (or something similar, sorry for my poor spoken english)
> >> Brantley Coile
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-09-01 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-01 14:42 Brantley Coile
2016-09-01 15:40 ` Bakul Shah
2016-09-01 16:05 ` Mark van Atten
2016-09-01 17:20 ` James A. Robinson
2016-09-01 19:10 ` Mark van Atten
2016-09-01 22:15 ` Travis Moore
2016-09-01 15:59 ` James A. Robinson
2016-09-01 16:36 ` Adriano Verardo
2016-09-01 17:54 ` Brantley Coile
2016-09-01 18:05 ` arnold [this message]
2016-09-01 22:56 ` Winston Kodogo
2016-09-02 1:52 ` Winston Kodogo
2016-09-02 9:06 ` cinap_lenrek
2016-09-02 14:19 ` Steven Stallion
2016-09-02 15:37 ` Kurt H Maier
2016-09-02 6:10 ` Mart Zirnask
2016-09-02 7:34 ` Steve Simon
2016-09-02 7:59 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=201609011805.u81I5BiW008420@freefriends.org \
--to=arnold@skeeve.com \
--cc=9fans@9fans.net \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).