[TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)

Joachim j at tllds.com
Tue Dec 1 10:00:36 AEST 2020


I'm also forwarding this message that arrived in my mailbox. Is this 
**THE** Ken Thompson?

Joachim


-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Date: 	Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:47:16 -0800
From: 	Ken Thompson <kenbob at gmail.com>
To: 	Joachim <j at 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 at minnie.tuhs.org 
<mailto:tuhs at 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

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