17 Dec
2020
17 Dec
'20
8:35 p.m.
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 09:24:47AM -0500, Ronald Natalie wrote:
I sort of agree. The macro-ed ALGOL like syntax that Steve did was hard
to deal with if you weren't on the ALGOL train (I was not, too young).
So the C version was easier for me to understand. But it sort of
lost something, I didn't really understand Steve's version, not at any
deep level. But it made more sense, somehow, than the C version did.
--lm
On Dec 17, 2020, at 9:21 AM, M Douglas McIlroy
<m.douglas.mcilroy(a)dartmouth.edu> wrote:
shell, including the story of do...done, has often been told. It
shows up most vividly in the condition part of if and while
statements.
I was never so happy as when SVR2 came out and found that someone had ???translated???
the shell source code back into C.