From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:05:48 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron In-Reply-To: <563cf28905c1795afe24eb45fc0cfe49.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> References: <20151223133603.B1BFE440AE@lignose.oclsc.org> <20151224151753.GA11034@mercury.ccil.org> <20151224230506.GM14449@eureka.lemis.com> <563cf28905c1795afe24eb45fc0cfe49.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: <20151225010548.GE28750@mcvoy.com> What's troubling is wikipedia, I didn't realize they were that much of a pain. On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 04:52:33PM -0800, scj at yaccman.com wrote: > This has been a somewhat bizarre and troubling thread, all in all. > > Would anybody want to discuss the origin of 'ls'? Or 'at'? > > Steve > > PS: (that was NOT a serious suggestion!) > > > > > On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 10:17:53 -0500, John Cowan wrote: > >> Clem Cole scripsit: > >> > >>> Rik in his role as the editor of ;login is going to try work with Doug > >>> and > >>> to get something "published" into the next edition which should satisfy > >>> the > >>> Wikipedia folks. There is a minor issue is that Rik is technically > >>> past > >>> the deadline but due to the holiday, there are a few days of grace that > >>> the > >>> workers putting the issue together have said they will thankfully try > >>> to > >>> handle. > >>> > >>> So maybe we can have get this fixed shortly. > >> > >> I don't think so. Is ;login: a peer-reviewed journal? It doesn't > >> look like it to me. > > > > One of the original references was from the proceedings of an AUUG > > conference. From personal experience I can confirm that the level of > > review for the conferences fell far short of what USENIX did. > > > >> Still, the current state says: > >> > >> The origin of the name cron is from the Greek word for > >> time, ???????????? (chronos), according to its author Ken > >> Thompson[2][better source needed]. Others have suggested that the > >> name comes from the Greek God Chronos[3] or that it is an acronym > >> for "Command Run On Notice"[4] or "Commands Run Over Night",[5] > >> but the references lack substantiation. > >> > >> Even if someone is still grumbling on the talk page, that doesn't > >> substantially misrepresent anything that I can see. > > > > Yes, that last sentence was my update. As I mentioned in an earlier > > message, I think that it's appropriate that it should stay, if only to > > stop people making the claim again in a more forceful manner. > > > > But it would be nice to be able to remove the [better source needed]. > > It seems that there's only one person objecting to the changes. I've > > asked him on the talk page what he really wants. > > > > Greg > > -- > > Sent from my desktop computer. > > Finger grog at FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. > > See complete headers for address and phone numbers. > > This message is digitally signed. If your Microsoft MUA reports > > problems, please read http://tinyurl.com/broken-mua > > > -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm