I'm also forwarding this message that arrived in my mailbox. Is this **THE** Ken Thompson?

Joachim


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Subject: Re: [TUHS] The UNIX Command Language (1976)
Date: Sun, 29 Nov 2020 21:47:16 -0800
From: Ken Thompson <kenbob@gmail.com>
To: Joachim <j@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@minnie.tuhs.org> wrote:
Apologies if this has already been linked here.

"The UNIX Command Language is the first-ever paper published on the Unix shell. It was written by Ken Thompson in 1976."

https://github.com/susam/tucl


Joachim