10 Jul
2018
10 Jul
'18
11:54 a.m.
Clem Cole <clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
BY the time dmr adds stdio, it was
still early enough in the life to displace the randomness for something as
important as I/O, whereas lack of use of something.like getopt would not
become clearly deficient until after widespread success.
I think "widespread access" is more like it for getopt. Getopt dates
to 1980; it was in System III (I just checked). That's only about two years
after V7 which was circa 1978.
Here are the dates:
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 1073 Apr 11 1980 usr/src/lib/libc/pdp11/gen/getopt.c
-rw-rw-r-- 1 arnold arnold 2273 May 16 1980 usr/src/man/man3/getopt.3c
But the world outside the Bell System didn't have System III. Getopt
didn't become "popular" until System V or so, and became much easier to
adopt once Henry Spencer published his public domain rewrite of the code
and man page.
Just a nit, (:-)
Arnold