[TUHS] SNOBOL and RATSNO

Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com
Wed Aug 10 08:25:12 AEST 2022


On Tue, Aug 09, 2022 at 06:18:52PM -0400, Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> > I've always believed that pic was so well designed
> > because it took a day to get the print out (back then),
> 
> I'm afraid this belief is urban legend. Credit for pic is due 100% to
> Kernighan, not to the contemporary pace of computing practice.

Well kudos to Brian then.  Pic is one the best designed tools I've ever
seen.  


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