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From: Norman Wilson <norman@oclsc.org>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] screen editors and beyond
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 16:53:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1578606809.15476.for-standards-violators@oclsc.org> (raw)

Jon Steinhart:

  One amusing thing that Steve told me which I think I can share is why the
  symmetry of case-esac, if-fi was broken with with do-done; it was because
  the od command existed so do-od wouldn't work!

=====

As I heard the story in the UNIX room decades ago (and at least five
years after the event), Steve tried and tried to convince Ken to
rename od so that he could have the symmetry he wanted.  Ken was
unmoved.

Norman Wilson
Toronto ON

             reply	other threads:[~2020-01-09 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-01-09 21:53 Norman Wilson [this message]
2020-01-09 21:55 ` Richard Salz
2020-01-09 22:01 ` Clem Cole
2020-01-10  1:52   ` Rob Pike
2020-01-10 12:26     ` Andrew Luke Nesbit
2020-01-10 13:15       ` Mark van Atten
2020-01-10 20:32       ` Rob Pike
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-01-08  9:46 [TUHS] screen editors Rudi Blom
2020-01-08 14:15 ` Chet Ramey
2020-01-08 23:21   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-01-09  0:08     ` Warner Losh
2020-01-09  1:28       ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  1:40         ` Bakul Shah
2020-01-09  2:04           ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09  2:07             ` Larry McVoy
2020-01-09  2:12               ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09  4:23                 ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 15:54                   ` Clem Cole
2020-01-09 17:21                     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-01-09 17:30                       ` Warner Losh
2020-01-09 17:45                         ` [TUHS] screen editors and beyond Jon Steinhart

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