From: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 18:18:52 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKH6PiWYOP+G4bOa6vH_GzDnPbpwMW9qXb=_=-Vh5D7mynYMXA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
> I've always believed that pic was so well designed
> because it took a day to get the print out (back then),
I'm afraid this belief is urban legend. Credit for pic is due 100% to
Kernighan, not to the contemporary pace of computing practice.
Even in the 1950s, we had one-hour turnaround at Bell Labs. And the
leap from batch processing had happened well before pic. Turnaround on
modest Unix source files and tests has changed little in the past
fifty years.
Doug
next reply other threads:[~2022-08-09 22:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-09 22:18 Douglas McIlroy [this message]
2022-08-09 22:25 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 15:05 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:14 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 17:37 ` arnold
2022-08-10 17:44 ` [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO [ really pic ] Jon Steinhart
2022-08-10 18:02 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-10 18:04 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-08-10 18:13 ` [TUHS] Re: pic Michael Kjörling
2022-08-10 18:19 ` Dennis Boone
2022-08-10 18:24 ` Jon Steinhart
2022-08-11 0:10 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-11 12:13 ` arnold
2022-08-11 14:34 ` Dan Cross
2022-08-12 1:52 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-12 6:46 ` arnold
2022-08-12 20:49 ` G. Branden Robinson
2022-08-11 7:37 ` [TUHS] Re: pic's One-way Information Flow. (Was: SNOBOL and RATSNO) Ralph Corderoy
2022-08-10 18:24 ` [TUHS] Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO joe mcguckin
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2022-08-09 17:42 Noel Chiappa
2022-08-09 18:49 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 18:54 ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 19:00 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 19:21 ` Marshall Conover
2022-08-09 20:19 ` Warner Losh
2022-08-10 21:13 ` Bill Cheswick
2022-08-10 21:30 ` John Cowan
2022-08-11 16:08 ` Marc Donner
2022-07-23 2:57 [TUHS] Line Numbers Before SysIII nl? BSD num? segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23 5:56 ` [TUHS] " markus schnalke
2022-07-23 7:55 ` segaloco via TUHS
2022-07-23 11:01 ` Dan Cross
2022-07-23 11:20 ` John Cowan
2022-07-23 12:00 ` Dan Cross
2022-07-24 19:02 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28 0:30 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-07-28 1:03 ` Phil Budne
2022-07-28 4:13 ` [TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO William H. Mitchell
2022-07-29 4:28 ` [TUHS] " Dave Horsfall
2022-07-29 5:07 ` Tomasz Rola
2022-08-09 5:12 ` Jonathan Gevaryahu
2022-08-09 6:11 ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 13:34 ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 15:15 ` Andrew Hume
2022-08-09 18:26 ` Clem Cole
2022-08-09 18:52 ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 21:25 ` Rob Pike
2022-08-09 15:39 ` Richard Salz
2022-08-09 13:56 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 16:45 ` William H. Mitchell
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