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From: cowan@mercury.ccil.org (John Cowan)
Subject: [TUHS] PWB contributions
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2015 21:32:14 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20151109023214.GB19195@mercury.ccil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201511090214.tA92EW8h006854@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

Doug McIlroy scripsit:

> This gently corrects a statement in my posting: the name
> of one of the PWB-originated programs is expr, not eval.

Not intentionally!  I figured that eval was some part of the
RJE system (core to PWB, of course) that I had never heard of.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
It's the old, old story.  Droid meets droid.  Droid becomes chameleon.
Droid loses chameleon, chameleon becomes blob, droid gets blob back
again.  It's a classic tale.  --Kryten, Red Dwarf



  reply	other threads:[~2015-11-09  2:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-09  2:14 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09  2:32 ` John Cowan [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-11-09  1:39 Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09  1:48 ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  2:12 ` Clement T. Cole
2015-11-09  2:54   ` Win Treese
2015-11-09  2:58     ` Win Treese
2015-11-09  3:36       ` Clem cole
2015-11-09  3:51         ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 15:40         ` Dave Horsfall
2015-11-09 15:54           ` Clem Cole
2015-11-09 22:12         ` Mary Ann Horton
2015-11-09  3:38       ` Random832
2015-11-09  4:50         ` Clem cole
2015-11-09 13:58   ` Doug McIlroy
2015-11-09 14:02     ` Ronald Natalie
2015-11-09 14:44     ` John Cowan
2015-11-09 22:23   ` Jeremy C. Reed
2015-11-10  4:11     ` Random832
2015-11-09  4:44 ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  4:51   ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  5:07     ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  5:09       ` Larry McVoy
2015-11-09  5:16         ` John Cowan
2015-11-09  5:16         ` Leonardo Taccari

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