[TUHS] A fuzzy awk
Rob Pike
robpike at gmail.com
Fri May 24 17:41:36 AEST 2024
I'm sure that's the etymology but fuzzing isn't exactly random. That's
kinda the point of it.
-rob
On Fri, May 24, 2024 at 5:18 PM Ralph Corderoy <ralph at inputplus.co.uk>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Rob wrote:
> > "Fuzzing" as it is now called (for no reason I can intuit)
>
> Barton Miller describes coining the term.
>
> ‘That night, I was logged on to the Unix system in my office via
> a dial-up phone line over a 1200 baud modem. ...
> I wanted a name that would evoke the feeling of random, unstructured
> data. After trying out several ideas, I settled on the term “fuzz”.’
>
> — https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~bart/fuzz/Foreword1.html
>
> Line noise inspired him, as he describes.
>
> --
> Cheers, Ralph.
>
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