"The most exotic feature of the Shell is its ability to connect the
standard output of one command directly to the standard input of
another. *Again,
neither program is aware that such things are going on.* In the example"

So sad that many shell programs today break this abstraction barrier :/ Was
there a watershed moment when people started doing this, or people just
always couldn't resist the "convenience" of typing less?


 Tyler


On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:18 AM Joachim via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:

> Apologies if this has already been linked here.
>
> "The UNIX Command Language is the first-ever paper published on the Unix
> shell. It was written by Ken Thompson in 1976."
>
> https://github.com/susam/tucl
>
>
> Joachim
>