9 Jan
2017
9 Jan
'17
8:30 a.m.
Doug McIlroy:
There was some pushback which resulted in the strange compromise
of if-fi, case-esac, do-done. Alas, the details have slipped from
memory. Help, scj?
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do-od would have required renaming the long-tenured od(1).
I remember a tale--possibly chat in the UNIX Room at one point in
the latter 1980s--that Steve tried and tried and tried to convince
Ken to rename od, in the name of symmetry and elegance. Ken simply
said no, as many times as it took. I don't remember who I heard this
from; anyone still in touch with Ken who can ask him?
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON