24 Sep
2015
24 Sep
'15
10:12 p.m.
Diomidis Spinellis scripsit:
- Lorinda Cherry is credited with diction. But
diction.c first appears
in 4BSD and 2.10BSD. Did Lorinda Cherry implement it at Berkeley?
Diction and style were part of Writer's Workbench, a sort of analogue of
PWB for technical writers rather than GE programmers. There were apparently
quite a few others as well. There is now a commercial product called
WWB based on the old software, but running as plugins to MS Word.
--
John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan(a)ccil.org
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand
on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.
Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land,
to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
--Thomas Henry Huxley