27 Jan
2020
27 Jan
'20
2:08 a.m.
On 1/26/20 1:28 PM, arnold(a)skeeve.com wrote:
"Jose R. Valverde via TUHS"
<tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
Before Miller got heavily into genomics and molecular biology research,
he was doing work with row-replacement algorithms and optimal sequence
calculation and screen updating. I think s is the demonstration vehicle he
used for that research, which is probably why it didn't need or use curses.
--
``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer
``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates
Chet Ramey, UTech, CWRU chet(a)case.edu http://tiswww.cwru.edu/~chet/
Talking of editors...
On ancient UNIX, my editor of choice was 's' from Software Tools, its
main advantage being that it didn't require curses.
That editor was from "A Software Tools Sampler" by Webb Miller, not
"Software Tools" by Kernighan and Plauger.