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2020
1 Dec
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I'm also forwarding this message that arrived in my mailbox. Is this
**THE** Ken Thompson?
Joachim
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Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:47:16 -0800
From: Ken Thompson <kenbob(a)gmail.com>
To: Joachim <j(a)tllds.com>
yes. the unix manual was published before that,
but i dont think it was released that early. it had
a manual page on the shell.
this paper might be the first paper ever released
outside bell labs.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 7:18 PM Joachim via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
<mailto:tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>> wrote:
Apologies if this has already been linked here.
"The UNIX Command Languageis the first-ever paper published on the
Unix shell. It was written by Ken Thompson in 1976."
https://github.com/susam/tucl
Joachim
2:23 a.m.
New subject: The UNIX Command Language (1976)
He is. So is Rob Pike, Doug, Steve Johnson, Steve Bourne (I got him here)
pretty much all of the remaining Bell Lab luminaries except for bwk.
I've tried to twist his arm, he's remained a hard nut to crack. I think
the list, and he, would love it if he were here. So long as we keep it
on point and move stuff like tputs to COFF right away.
I suspect all of them don't want a big deal made about them, my guess
is they are here to talk about Unix. Just my opinion.
On Tue, Dec 01, 2020 at 11:21:51AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, Joachim via TUHS wrote:
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I'm also forwarding this message that arrived
in my mailbox. Is this
**THE** Ken Thompson?
I think he's on this list...
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