[TUHS] Origins and life of the pg pager

Rob Pike robpike at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 14:26:21 AEST 2020


Yeah, p is all we need. I think it originated with td at UofT. I might have
brought it with me to Bell Labs, or recreated it. Probably the former. The
Plan 9 version is, except for a change of I/O library, likely the same
code. 90 lines of C.

More and less are both more and less than p.

-rob


On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 12:56 PM Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> I believe that was my statement, not Dougs, and I stand behind it.
> Less was a huge improvement.  If you want me to dig out why I will
> but I don't want to because it will make you look bad, that is not
> my goal.
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 07:41:27PM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote:
> > On Jun 14, 2020, at 7:26 PM, Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > >> less(1) was actually an improvement
> > >
> > > Hmm. Less is my favorite whipping boy for featuritis.
> > >
> > > % less --help |wc
> > >    242    1331   12202
> >
> > % wc p.c
> >      90     219    1504 p.c
>
> --
> ---
> Larry McVoy                  lm at mcvoy.com
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
>
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