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Subject: Re: [9fans] too good to pass up
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 18:02:48 -0700
From: geoff@collyer.net
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Bourne had been immersed in the Algol 68C compiler at Cambridge and
did a port of it to PDP-11 Unix (thus the overlay a.out type(s) in
V7), as I recall, so it's somewhat understandable that he'd be
attached to Algol 68 (which uses do/od, actually, but od was already
the name of a Unix command).  Not that I'm defending writing C as
though it were Algol 68...