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    The product and its advertising tag line still exist:<br>
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    Note the red rectangle-with-rounded-corners under the large yellow
    word 'Motel' on the front of the box.<br>
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    - Aron<br>
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 12/13/24 16:27, Rob Pike wrote:<br>
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          answer your actual question, it is of course a riff on a TV ad
          for a cockroach trap in the 1980s. The sentiment of the quote,
          as I saw it (it's possible I was the one who added it to the
          fortunes file after ken saw the SCCS burble at the top of some
          file from USG and laughed), was primarily a reaction to the
          taint it added to the previously annotation-free top of the
          file. It was also a response to the march of corporate code
          management stepping into the research world, or perhaps the
          hacker world. It's a philosophical thing, a feeling, not an
          argument.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">It
          all seems so quaint now.</div>
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        <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">-rob</div>
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        <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at
          8:22 AM Rob Pike <<a href="mailto:robpike@gmail.com"
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              style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">According to the Unix
              room fortunes file, the actual quote is</div>
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            SCCS: the source-code motel -- your code checks in but it
            never checks out.
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            <div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at
              3:52 AM Marc Rochkind <<a
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              wrote:<br>
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                <div>IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering has asked
                  me to write a retrospective on the influence of SCCS
                  over the last 50 years, as my SCCS paper was published
                  in 1975. They consider it one of the most influential
                  papers from TSE's first decade.</div>
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                <div>There's a funny quote from Ken Thompson that
                  circulates from time-to-time:</div>
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                <div>"SCCS, the source motel! Programs check in and
                  never check out!"</div>
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                <div>But nobody seems to know what it means exactly. As
                  part of my research, I asked Ken what the quote meant,
                  sunce I wanted to include it. He explained that it
                  refers to SCCS storing binary data in its repository
                  file, preventing UNIX text tools from operating on the
                  file.</div>
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                <div>Of course, this is only one of
                  SCCS's many weaknesses. If you have anything funny
                  about any of the others, post it here. I already have
                  all the boring usual stuff (e.g., long-term locks,
                  file-oriented, no merging).</div>
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                <div>Marc Rochkind</div>
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