4 Dec
2020
4 Dec
'20
2:43 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 03, 2020 at 09:37:17PM +0100, Niklas Karlsson wrote:
Den tors 3 dec. 2020 kl 21:32 skrev M Douglas McIlroy
<
m.douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu>:
Wasn't there a version that was
cat whatever ^ wc -l
?
There's a back story. The paper appears in
the proceedings of a
conference held in London in 1973, a few months after the advent of
pipes. While preparing the presentation, Ken was inspired to invent
and install the pipe operator. His talk wouldn't have been nearly as
compelling had it been expressed in the original pipeline syntax (for
which I take the blame).
Now I'm curious. Is there anywhere I can read about the original pipeline
syntax? I tried searching a bit, but the only mention that was even vaguely
informative only stated that > was involved.