From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <8d8ed5987f627d5ad9ddbe1bae67dd41@quanstro.net> From: erik quanstrom Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:12:57 -0600 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] ports from GPL MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: 15b6e862-ead1-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Fri Mar 17 08:25:34 CST 2006, brantley@coraid.com wrote: > Wouldn't at least gcc be from the MIT culture given its originator was > from the mit ai lab? Where's readline and info from originally? > Not to mention emacs. stallman left the mit lab in 1983/4. this was before gcc, readline, or (tex)info. i think gnu has to be considered seperately because rms started with the gnu manifesto before he wrote any (much) code for gnu. i'm not sure when readline started but i believe that it started life as part of bash. this is from the readline-2.0 ChangeLog. Wed Jun 28 20:20:51 1989 Brian Fox (bfox at aurel) * Made readline and history into independent libraries. there are also some references to bash in the readline-2.0 source. > > Where did the --option syntax originate? Maybe they wanted to say /option > but that's not possible under Unix. Wouldn't the -o vs --very-long-option-name > count as a MH vs. MIT artifact? > i don't know who invented the --gnu-system-long-option-syntax-option but i'm pretty sure it was invented to disambguated betwen a multicharacter option and a sequence of single character options. imho, just trying to parse the long option first and a little common sense could have been enough. - erik