From: James Frew <frew@ucsb.edu>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: A second Unix Patent
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2023 11:19:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a1f8211b-1c48-6c42-34e6-f329e03db579@ucsb.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230303132913.ab5mqzuwlut64saw@risey.fivesnap.com>
This qualifies as a true Service to the Profession™.
If you doubt that, take a look at the original C version, completely
free of pesky comments. (Would've made a great CS PhD exam question:
"What does this code do?")
/Frew
P.S.: All you cats waiting on the books I promised: they're all boxed up
on the spare bed behind me, shipping Real Soon Now™.
On 2023-03-03 05:29, Steve Mynott wrote:
> While poking around I discovered a modern go rewrite by Rob Pike
>
> https://github.com/robpike/typo
>
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2023 at 11:41:17PM -0500, Douglas McIlroy typed:
>> Typo, in v3 through v6, may be the most creative Unix program to have come
>> out of Bell Labs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-03-03 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-03-01 22:59 [TUHS] " Warner Losh
2023-03-02 4:41 ` [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2023-03-02 5:16 ` David Arnold
2023-03-03 13:29 ` Steve Mynott
2023-03-03 19:19 ` James Frew [this message]
2023-03-04 1:57 Noel Chiappa
2023-03-04 9:22 ` Ralph Corderoy
2023-03-04 15:08 ` Clem Cole
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