1 Dec
2020
1 Dec
'20
6 a.m.
I'm also forwarding this message that arrived in my mailbox. Is this
**THE** Ken Thompson?
Joachim
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:47:16 -0800
From: Ken Thompson <kenbob(a)gmail.com>
To: Joachim <j(a)tllds.com>
yes. the unix manual was published before that,
but i dont think it was released that early. it had
a manual page on the shell.
this paper might be the first paper ever released
outside bell labs.
On Sun, Nov 29, 2020 at 7:18 PM Joachim via TUHS <tuhs(a)minnie.tuhs.org
<mailto:tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>> wrote:
Apologies if this has already been linked here.
"The UNIX Command Languageis the first-ever paper published on the
Unix shell. It was written by Ken Thompson in 1976."
https://github.com/susam/tucl
Joachim