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* Re: [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re:  Warner's Early Unix Presentation]
@ 2020-02-11  3:32 Doug McIlroy
  2020-02-11  3:53 ` Larry McVoy
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  0 siblings, 6 replies; 36+ messages in thread
From: Doug McIlroy @ 2020-02-11  3:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

> What i like is the autocorrect feature in v8:
>
> $ cd /usr/blot
> /usr/blit
> $ pwd
> /usr/blit

Here I am, editor of the v8 manual and unaware of the feature.
We now know that silent correction is a terrible idea.

Postel's principle: "be conservative in what you do, be liberal
in what you accept from others" was doctrine in early HTML
specs, and led to disastrous disagreement among browsers'
interpretation of web pages. Sadly, the "principle" lives on 
despite its having been expunged from the HTML spec.

Today's "langsec" movement grew out of bitter experience
with malicious inputs exploiting "liberal" interpretation of
nonconforming data.

Today's NYT has an article about fake knockoffs of George Orwell
for sale on Amazon.  It cites an edition of "Animal Farm"
apparently pirated by lowgrade OCR autocorrected and never
proofread. One of the many gaffes is that every instance of
"iv" beame ChapterIV, as in "prChapterIVacy".

I didn't like some Lisp systems' DWIM (do what I mean) when I
first heard about the feature, and I like it even less 40-some
years on. I would probably have remonstrated with Rob had I
realized the shell was doing it.

Doug

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* [TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation
@ 2020-02-07 22:25 Warren Toomey
  2020-02-07 23:57 ` Rob Pike
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 36+ messages in thread
From: Warren Toomey @ 2020-02-07 22:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: tuhs

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https://fosdem.org/2020/schedule/event/early_unix/

The video of Warner Losh's FOSDEM presentation "The Hidden Early History of Unix" is now available.

Cheers, Warren
-- 
Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.

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2020-02-11  3:53 ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-11 11:24   ` Ralph Corderoy
2020-02-11 15:51     ` Larry McVoy
2020-02-11  4:46 ` Warren Toomey
2020-02-11  5:12   ` Steve Nickolas
2020-02-11  6:33 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11  9:40 ` arnold
2020-02-11 15:06   ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-11 14:36 ` Clem Cole
2020-02-11 15:29   ` Mike Markowski
2020-02-11 16:03   ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-11 17:12     ` Clem Cole
2020-02-11 17:17     ` Steve Nickolas
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2020-02-07 22:25 [TUHS] Warner's Early Unix Presentation Warren Toomey
2020-02-07 23:57 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-08 15:15   ` Warner Losh
2020-02-08 21:50     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-10 15:05       ` Dan Cross
2020-02-10 15:46         ` [TUHS] V9 shell [was Re: Warner's Early Unix Presentation] arnold
2020-02-10 18:39           ` Rob Pike
2020-02-10 18:59             ` Bakul Shah
2020-02-10 19:58             ` Angelo Papenhoff
2020-02-10 20:11               ` Chet Ramey
2020-02-11  9:33             ` arnold
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Noel Hunt
2020-02-11  9:47               ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11  9:59                 ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:05                   ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-11 17:18                     ` Arthur Krewat
2020-02-11 18:22                     ` Kurt H Maier
2020-02-16 21:34                       ` Wesley Parish
2020-02-11 18:26                     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-11 23:56                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2020-02-12  0:12                         ` Jon Steinhart
2020-02-12  5:54                           ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 17:36                   ` Dan Cross
2020-02-11 18:35                   ` Christopher Browne
2020-02-11 18:54                     ` Rob Pike
2020-02-11 21:36                     ` Harald Arnesen

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