From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] Unix stories, Stephen Bourne and IF-FI in C code
Date: Sun, 08 Jan 2017 20:06:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201701090106.v0916oha004909@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
> if-fi and case-esac notation from Algol came to shell [via Steve Bourne]
There was some pushback which resulted in the strange compromise
of if-fi, case-esac, do-done. Alas, the details have slipped from
memory. Help, scj?
doug
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2017-01-09 1:06 Doug McIlroy [this message]
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2017-01-10 3:11 ` Paul McJones
2017-01-09 2:30 Norman Wilson
2017-01-09 3:31 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-09 15:30 ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-09 15:45 ` arnold
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2017-01-09 16:03 ` Clem Cole
2017-01-10 18:44 ` Lawrence Stewart
2017-01-09 18:48 ` Derek Fawcus
2017-01-09 20:35 ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-10 12:24 ` Tony Finch
2017-01-11 6:00 ` Brantley Coile
2017-01-08 20:37 Walter F.J. Mueller
2017-01-08 21:12 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-08 21:26 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-08 21:54 ` Kay Parker
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