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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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Larry McVoy                lm at bitmover.com           http://www.bitkeeper.com



  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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