From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21926 invoked by alias); 19 Dec 2014 06:58:34 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-users-help@zsh.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes List-Id: Zsh Users List List-Post: List-Help: X-Seq: 19605 Received: (qmail 7486 invoked from network); 19 Dec 2014 06:58:23 -0000 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.3.2 (2011-06-06) on f.primenet.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=T/C1EZ6Q c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=7RdanbHzwoPNWkp1ouN4hg==:117 a=7RdanbHzwoPNWkp1ouN4hg==:17 a=G8GL833Es-AA:10 a=IkcTkHD0fZMA:10 a=z-vNyzHJKV9aswQvJb8A:9 a=QEXdDO2ut3YA:10 Message-id: <5493CC8C.8020704@eastlink.ca> Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:58:20 -0800 From: Ray Andrews User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/31.2.0 MIME-version: 1.0 To: zsh-users@zsh.org Subject: Re: surprise with echo References: <54937E5B.2020008@eastlink.ca> <141218190653.ZM16331@torch.brasslantern.com> <141218215728.ZM28835@torch.brasslantern.com> In-reply-to: Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit On 12/18/2014 10:08 PM, Kurtis Rader wrote: > I think we already have a semi-secret handshake. I joined Sequent > Computer Systems around 1991 as a support technician. Because I was > the only software engineer on that team I wrote a lot of their support > tools. Which included supporting (but mostly arguing against) using > Smalltalk as the basis for a expert system to support our customers. > Those were the days, as you allude to, when things like a X Window > system terminal (i.e., client) was bleeding edge. I've never written a > line of code in Occam but remember reading about it and debating its > merits. I love this historical banter. How many guys still with the project overlapped with Falstad? Bart of course, anyone else? So vital to have known the mind of the master.