[TUHS] re: Mention TUHS in Linux Magazine (US)?
dmr at plan9.bell-labs.com
dmr at plan9.bell-labs.com
Fri Apr 29 13:55:39 AEST 2005
Jerry Peek wrote:
> I'm writing a series of columns on "What's GNU in Old Utilities".
> It describes new features of GNU utilities like cat(1) and
> contrasts them to "how we used to do it."
The most famous rant on this topic (actually BSD, not
GNU) was by Rob Pike, "UNIX Style: cat -v considered harmful"
I couldn't find the thing itself (it's from a Usenix conference
in 1983) but there's a .ps version of a contemporary paper
with most of the content under
http://gaul.org/files/cat_-v_considered_harmful.html
Dennis
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