[TUHS] Lorinda Cherry

Steve Nickolas usotsuki at buric.co
Wed Feb 16 09:32:56 AEST 2022


On Tue, 15 Feb 2022, Douglas McIlroy wrote:

> First came "dc", an unlimited-precision desk calculator,
> which is still a Unix staple 45 years on. Building on dc,
> she would later make "bc", which made unlimited precision
> available in familiar programming-language notation and became
> the interface of choice to dc.

In the form of GNU/NetBSD bc, I use bc(1) to this day as my tool of choice 
for quick calculations.

-uso.


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