From: Sean Dwyer via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: scj@yaccman.com
Cc: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] ching in Unix
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2021 16:32:14 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YHILTumLwZQF2f42@mail.ewe2.ninja> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3419319f084c8149953ab6eefcc44fb4@yaccman.com>
On Sat, Mar 27, 2021 at 11:29:49PM -0700, scj@yaccman.com wrote:
> I probably wrote the first version of Ching. You could type a question as
> an argument and it would hash the question and use it to simulate yarrow
> sticks. I used a small book for the "prophecies", and at some point
> realized that it was probably some kind of copyright violation so I dropped
> it. It's quite possible that others tinkered with it as well, that being
> the way the world worked then.
>
>
> ---
That's interesting, so there was a trail of authorship, a history we have lost
touch with unless we find the long-lost v6 source or the 32v sources that can
shed light on this more. I am a little surprised that the Legge translation
was not used as a basis for prophecies, it's been public domain AFAIK.
--
I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise as they fly by.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-10 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-28 21:45 Warren Toomey
2021-01-28 22:01 ` John Floren
2021-01-28 22:10 ` George Michaelson
2021-01-28 22:12 ` John Floren
2021-01-28 22:32 ` George Michaelson
2021-01-28 23:05 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-30 7:28 ` John Cowan
2021-01-30 7:31 ` Adam Thornton
2021-03-28 6:29 ` scj
2021-03-28 21:56 ` Noel Hunt
2021-04-10 20:32 ` Sean Dwyer via TUHS [this message]
2021-03-28 22:31 Norman Wilson
2021-03-29 2:06 ` Noel Hunt
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