From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Ronald Natalie <ron@ronnatalie.com>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Algol 68 and Unix (was cron and at ...)
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:35:58 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201217143558.GD13268@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0EA02917-243E-4612-9F7E-D370EE0A7C2E@ronnatalie.com>
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 09:24:47AM -0500, Ronald Natalie wrote:
>
>
> > On Dec 17, 2020, at 9:21 AM, M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> >
> > shell, including the story of do...done, has often been told. It
> > shows up most vividly in the condition part of if and while
> > statements.
>
> I was never so happy as when SVR2 came out and found that someone had ???translated??? the shell source code back into C.
I sort of agree. The macro-ed ALGOL like syntax that Steve did was hard
to deal with if you weren't on the ALGOL train (I was not, too young).
So the C version was easier for me to understand. But it sort of
lost something, I didn't really understand Steve's version, not at any
deep level. But it made more sense, somehow, than the C version did.
--lm
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-17 14:21 M Douglas McIlroy
2020-12-17 14:24 ` Ronald Natalie
2020-12-17 14:35 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2020-12-17 14:44 ` Mike Markowski
2020-12-17 21:18 ` Dr Iain Maoileoin
2020-12-18 5:06 ` John Cowan
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