[nycbug-talk] Some history of Unix utilities

George Rosamond george at ceetonetechnology.com
Tue Aug 6 09:15:52 EDT 2013


Isaac (.ike) Levy:
> On Aug 5, 2013, at 6:46 PM, James E Keenan <jkeen at verizon.net> wrote:
> 
>> nycbug-talk is one of the few lists I subscribe to where I know people take an interest in Unix history.  This discussion of the origins of several Unix utilities popped up on the Perl 5 Porters newsgroup today.  The participants are usually among the most well informed on p5p, so I figured I'd share it.
>>
>> Thank you very much.
>> Jim Keenan
> 
> Jim,  I never thought I'd say anything like this, but, thanks for sharing this cross-post.
> 
> Possibly the first truly delightful cross posts I'm seen on talk@!


+1 on this.

we need to start reflecting this more in our meetings again.

ty James.

g




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