1 Dec
2020
1 Dec
'20
10:04 p.m.
"The most exotic feature of the Shell is its ability to connect the
standard output of one command directly to the standard input of
another. *Again,
neither program is aware that such things are going on.* In the example"
So sad that many shell programs today break this abstraction barrier :/ Was
there a watershed moment when people started doing this, or people just
always couldn't resist the "convenience" of typing less?
Tyler
On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 5:18 AM Joachim via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
Apologies if this has already been linked here.
"The UNIX Command Language is the first-ever paper published on the Unix
shell. It was written by Ken Thompson in 1976."
https://github.com/susam/tucl
Joachim