From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:45:13 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron In-Reply-To: <20151223045341.GC1873@mcvoy.com> References: <20151223014407.07322440AE@lignose.oclsc.org> <20151223045341.GC1873@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: ditto and +1 On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Larry McVoy wrote: > As a guy who has donated money to Wikipedia this whole thread makes > me not want to donate again. Just me being grumpy. > > On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:44:07PM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote: > > Perhaps Wikipedia would be satisfied if we could get > > Ken to write a letter to some current published journal, > > saying that he's the one who named cron, he's heard > > people are interested in how it got that name, here's > > how. We could then cite that as a reference. > > > > On the other hand, this may be an example of the > > degree to which one should trust Wikipedia. The > > `command run on notice' acronym claim is backed up > > by an article from the AUUG (Hi Warren!) Proceedings, > > 1994, in which the first reference to cron gives > > that explanation with no further reference. > > > > If that's the quality of reference they accept, there > > is simply no reason to take anything they publish > > as gospel. Sorry. > > > > Norman Wilson > > Toronto ON > > > > Proud that no one has yet made a spurious Wikipedia > > page asserting the etymology of my personal domain > > name. > > -- > --- > Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com > http://www.mcvoy.com/lm > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: