Re: [TUHS] SCCS

Eric Allman wrote in <94341a28-723a-f177-f658-0c827b35591b(a)neophilic.com>: |On 2019-09-16 19:23 , Steffen Nurpmeso wrote: |> One thing he says, and which is an interesting part of this |> thread, is |> |> The statement of Eric Allman that Tichy used SCCS version |> 1 i cannot believe, because Tichy's releases are from 1982, and |> SCCS version 4 was released as earyl as February 1977. SCCS |> version 3 used a binary history format, by the way. |> |> That should have addressed Eric Allman, but the longer i use email |> in the public space the more i like that pub-like feeling. (And |> not going to add that it reminds me of my childhood, where i was |> a boy under elder seasoned men _also_.) | |I did not claim that Tichy used SCCS v1. It's worse than that. He only |read the IEEE paper, which pre-dated RCS --- so far as I know he never |even tried SCCS release 4 (current at the time Tichy published), which |fixed the obvious problem in the release 1 design as originally |published. Despite careful descriptions of the changes, he refused to |stop slandering SCCS. He was truly standing on toes, not shoulders. Thank you. I will forward your response to Jörg. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)