From: usotsuki@buric.co (Steve Nickolas)
Subject: [TUHS] Bourne shell and comments
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:07:00 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.02.1704210205530.81367@frieza.hoshinet.org> (raw)
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, Bakul Shah wrote:
> From the horse’s mouth (as per https://www.talisman.org/~erlkonig/documents/dennis-ritchie-and-hash-bang.shtml ):
>
>
> From: "Ritchie, Dennis M (Dennis)** CTR **" <dmr at research.bell-labs.com>
> To: <erlĸonigⓐtαlismαn.org>
>
> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:37:37 -0600
> Subject: RE: What do -you- call your #!<something> line?
>
> I can't recall that we ever gave it a proper name.
> It was pretty late that it went in--I think that I
> got the idea from someone at one of the UCB conferences
> on Berkeley Unix; I may have been one of the first to
> actually install it, but it was an idea that I got
> from elsewhere.
>
> As for the name: probably something descriptive like
> "hash-bang" though this has a specifically British flavor, but
> in any event I don't recall particularly using a pet name
> for the construction.
>
> Regards,
> Dennis
>
>
> [Sorry about the html]
In the process of replying, I've de-htmlized it. ;)
Anyway, I use "pound-bang" which is basically the same thing, although I
must say it has a particular violent quality about it...
-uso.
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2017-04-18 20:48 Warren Toomey
2017-04-18 20:51 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-18 21:45 ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-18 22:16 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-18 22:40 ` Toby Thain
2017-04-19 18:36 ` Stephen Kitt
2017-04-19 20:35 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-04-19 0:50 ` Lyndon Nerenberg
2017-04-19 8:35 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-04-19 16:31 ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-19 16:59 ` Andreas Kusalananda Kähäri
2017-04-19 17:36 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-19 17:59 ` Grant Taylor
2017-04-20 20:13 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-20 20:17 ` Chet Ramey
2017-04-21 3:28 ` arnold
2017-04-21 3:43 ` Bakul Shah
2017-04-21 6:07 ` Steve Nickolas [this message]
2017-04-21 11:18 ` Clem cole
2017-04-21 13:20 ` Michael Kjörling
2017-04-18 20:56 ` Chet Ramey
2017-04-19 21:02 ` Sven Mascheck
2017-04-19 22:07 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-20 0:31 ` shawn wilson
2017-04-20 0:35 ` shawn wilson
2017-04-20 3:50 ` Andy Kosela
2017-04-20 4:47 ` Warner Losh
2017-04-21 1:42 ` Nemo
2017-04-21 10:54 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-21 14:22 ` Andy Kosela
2017-04-21 14:45 ` Ron Natalie
2017-04-22 2:46 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-04-20 16:39 ` Sven Mascheck
2017-04-20 21:42 ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2017-04-19 19:18 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-21 17:03 Doug McIlroy
2017-04-21 18:15 ` Clem Cole
2017-04-21 19:13 ` Steve Johnson
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