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From: George Michaelson <ggm@algebras.org>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <TUHS@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk.
Date: Tue, 21 May 2024 13:53:35 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAKr6gn0-Hh-2hniTO2ReZTObtzX+2ar0q58-dRFPc6PvYpiQSg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKzdPgyOPp+M8_nSUD=LeB-qrduBBsQDG-HgJjExKn-GAeVzLA@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 21, 2024 at 11:56 AM Rob Pike <robpike@gmail.com> wrote:
>It's probably impossible to decide who invented fuzzing, so the credit will surely go to the person who named it.

That theory probably applies to the Earl of Sandwich, And the Earl of
Cardigan. Hoare Belisha also did ok for giant orange balls at zebra
crossings. I'm less sure the Earl of Zebra feels recognised, or that
Eugène-René Poubelle feels happy with his namesake (he should do, dust
bins are huge)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-05-21  3:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-20 14:09 Serissa
2024-05-21  1:56 ` Rob Pike
2024-05-21  2:47   ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-21  2:54     ` Lawrence Stewart
2024-05-21  3:36       ` Rob Pike
2024-05-21 11:59         ` Peter Weinberger (温博格) via TUHS
2024-05-21  3:53   ` George Michaelson [this message]
2024-05-21 16:59   ` Paul Winalski
2024-05-21 17:56     ` segaloco via TUHS
2024-05-21 18:12     ` Luther Johnson
2024-05-22 15:37       ` Paul Winalski
2024-05-22 18:49         ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-22 20:17           ` Larry McVoy
2024-05-22  3:26     ` Dave Horsfall
2024-05-22  5:08       ` Alexis
2024-05-22 13:12         ` Warner Losh
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-05-23 13:49 Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-23 20:52 ` Rob Pike
2024-05-24  5:41   ` andrew
2024-05-24  7:17   ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-24  7:41     ` Rob Pike
2024-05-24 11:56     ` Dan Halbert
2024-05-25  0:17   ` Bakul Shah via TUHS
2024-05-25  0:57     ` G. Branden Robinson
2024-05-25 13:56     ` David Arnold
2024-05-25 17:18     ` Paul Winalski
2024-05-25 17:36       ` Tom Perrine
2024-05-20 13:06 [TUHS] A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-20 13:25 ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2024-05-20 13:41   ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 14:26     ` Chet Ramey
2024-05-22 13:44     ` arnold
2024-05-20 13:54 ` Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-19 23:08 [TUHS] The 'usage: ...' message. (Was: On Bloat...) Douglas McIlroy
2024-05-20  0:58 ` [TUHS] " Rob Pike
2024-05-20  3:19   ` arnold
2024-05-20  9:20     ` [TUHS] A fuzzy awk. (Was: The 'usage: ...' message.) Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 13:10       ` [TUHS] " Chet Ramey
2024-05-20 13:30         ` [TUHS] Re: A fuzzy awk Ralph Corderoy
2024-05-20 13:48           ` Chet Ramey

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