From: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
To: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>, zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: surprise with echo
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2014 19:49:01 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5494F1AD.90008@eastlink.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <141219185539.ZM30266@torch.brasslantern.com>
On 12/19/2014 06:55 PM, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> On Dec 18, 10:58pm, Ray Andrews wrote:
> }
> } I love this historical banter. How many guys still with the project
> } overlapped with Falstad? Bart of course, anyone else?
>
> I may be the only one. Paul was my employee for a while immediately
> after he graduated college.
>
> } So vital to have known the mind of the master.
>
> Chuckle. When zsh was written he was a brilliant but inexperienced
> programmer, trying to help his csh-afflicted classmates get used to
> Bourne shell scripting. He didn't continue working on zsh for long
> after entering the real world.
Well well ... so who, really, is/was the master, I asks myself? ...
Why did he decide on a new shell vs. working on/with bash?
Does he keep in touch?
>
> Much the same could be said of the man who added the programmable
> completion system several years later.
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-12-20 3:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-12-19 1:24 Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 3:06 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19 3:20 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19 6:09 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 6:30 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19 17:54 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 4:14 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19 4:39 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19 5:19 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19 6:00 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-19 5:57 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-19 6:08 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-19 6:58 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20 2:55 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20 3:05 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-20 3:49 ` Ray Andrews [this message]
2014-12-20 4:40 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20 5:50 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 6:45 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-19 11:21 ` Oliver Kiddle
2014-12-20 2:09 ` Bart Schaefer
2014-12-20 2:58 ` Kurtis Rader
2014-12-20 3:55 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20 5:08 ` Lawrence Velázquez
2014-12-20 5:37 ` Ray Andrews
2014-12-20 9:45 ` ZyX
2014-12-19 6:00 ` Ray Andrews
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