[TUHS] Has this been discussed on-list? How Unix changed Software.
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Wed Sep 7 12:33:20 AEST 2022
> I’ve read that Ken wrote the kernel with an eye to it being a coding exemplar.
> Deliberately wrote consistent, high quality code.
>From UNIX Implementation:
What is or is not implemented in the kernel represents both a great responsibility and a great power. It is a soap-box platform on "the way things should be done."
- Ken Thompson, 1977
This paper can be found in the BSTJ Vol. 57, No. 6 as well as various "Documents for UNIX" compilations such as the Version 7 manual Volume 2.
- Matt G.
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