[TUHS] Happy birthday, Niklaus Wirth!

[Clem Cole]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 12:31 AM, Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 5:59 PM, Ian Zimmerman <itz at very.loosely.org>
> wrote:
> > On 2018-02-15 17:25, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> >
> >> I know one of the Franz founders, I'll ask him when I have a chance.
> >
> > So, the main link seems to be John Foderaro, who worked on both BSD and
> Franz.
> >
> > According to my source, he wrote biff(1).
>
> I had been of the impression that biff(1) was named after a dog

​Indeed - Biff was Heidi's dog.​



> that
> ​ ​
> barked at the slightest provocation...
>
​Hmm, I'm not sure that is fair.  Biff just warned Heidi that someone had
entered their office​.

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