11 Jan
2017
11 Jan
'17
12:44 a.m.
On 2017, Jan 9, at 11:03 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:45 AM, <arnold(a)skeeve.com
<mailto:arnold@skeeve.com>> wrote:
I remember the Bournegol well; I did some hacking on the BSD shell.
Yep - lots of strange things in source debuggers.
In general, it wasn't too unusual for people from Pascal backgrounds to
do similar things,
When we did Magnolia & Tektronix the ex-Xerox/Alta guys lusted for Cedar/Mesa et al
- and quickly discovered the Bournegol idea.
I shook my head/shrugged my shoulders, but it made them happy and they quickly wrote some
pretty cool tools, like an ECAD system.
Speaking as an ex-Xerox/Alto guy, there was some flow in the other direction as well.
Cedar started with a Tenex CMD JSYS derived command line, like the Alto OS before it, but
having received the True Word from V7 at Stanford, I wrote a Cedar shell with standard I/O
and redirection and shell scripts. I don’t think I did pipes. It did become the standard
command line interface. Then Warren Teitelman added DWIM to it which was highly
entertaining at times.
-L