From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2016 16:06:12 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] etymology of cron In-Reply-To: References: <20151225222234.GP14449@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: Marc - thank you for bird dogging this. I think the email from Ken to Brian, and the email from Doug should be enough to close the issue for ever. This is of course how history gets rewritten - which is a sad statement. As I a wise man said ( Ben Franklin maybe??), history is often written by those that were never there. On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Marc Rochkind wrote: > To update this thread: > > The wording from my last edit to the Wikipedia article on cron is still > there, although one of the references has been removed, and the phrase > "better source needed" has been added. That part is OK with me, and I > actually agree with it--a better source *is* needed. > > But at least the article at this point no longer says that cron is an > acronym. > > [To Greg Lehey: As anyone can edit the article, you could could add a > paragraph about bogus claims as to what cron means if you want, but, in my > opinion, the article is better without this distracting discussion.] > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey > wrote: > >> On Friday, 25 December 2015 at 10:41:54 -0800, David wrote: >> > It has been updated again: >> > >> > The origin of the name cron is from the Greek word for time, >> > ???????????? (chronos).[2][3] (Ken Thompson, author of cron, has >> > confirmed this in a private communication with Brian Kernighan.) >> >> Yes, but you've removed the reference to the incorrect expansions. As >> I noted at some length earlier in this thread, that's not appropriate. >> It ignores the fact that people have made these claims, it removes the >> comment that they're unsubstantiated, and it prepares the field for >> somebody else to make the claim again, with possibly even more bizarre >> expmanations. I won't back it out yet, because I can see further >> changes coming from other directions. Once again this Tedickey >> character has been very active. >> >> 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 >> > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: