From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] History of #! interpretation in Unix
Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 12:42:05 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110116204205.GA28118@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110116201745.GE3374@mercury.ccil.org>
On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 03:17:46PM -0500, John Cowan wrote:
> Sven Mascheck scripsit:
>
> > DMR might have known the csh-hack (and if a comment character is
> > implemented anywhere, here csh, then it's obvious to use it for #!)
>
> That might account for the "#", but not for "#!" taken together.
> Having two different people invent the shebang independently (as opposed
> to *implementing* it independently, as has happened many times -- 8th
> Edition, SVR4, Linux, etc.) is just too improbable for me to swallow.
I grepped 32v, v7, sysIII for it and didn't find it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-01-16 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-01-16 8:43 Warren Toomey
2011-01-16 9:55 ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 13:20 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 17:17 ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 19:19 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 20:17 ` John Cowan
2011-01-16 20:42 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2011-01-16 21:08 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-16 21:37 ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 16:35 ` Warner Losh
2011-01-17 20:47 ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 10:09 ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-01-16 10:53 ` Wilko Bulte
2011-01-17 16:25 ` Warner Losh
2011-01-17 19:02 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-17 20:51 ` John Cowan
2011-01-17 22:41 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-17 20:58 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-19 4:10 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2011-01-19 20:35 ` Sven Mascheck
2011-01-20 4:09 ` Cyrille Lefevre
2011-01-28 19:38 ` Jeremy C. Reed
2011-01-30 15:05 ` Sven Mascheck
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