3 Jan
2016
3 Jan
'16
3:06 a.m.
Marc - thank you for bird dogging this. I think the email from Ken to
Brian, and the email from Doug should be enough to close the issue for ever.
This is of course how history gets rewritten - which is a sad statement.
As I a wise man said ( Ben Franklin maybe??), history is often written by
those that were never there.
On Sat, Jan 2, 2016 at 2:56 PM, Marc Rochkind <rochkind(a)basepath.com> wrote:
To update this thread:
The wording from my last edit to the Wikipedia article on cron is still
there, although one of the references has been removed, and the phrase
"better source needed" has been added. That part is OK with me, and I
actually agree with it--a better source *is* needed.
But at least the article at this point no longer says that cron is an
acronym.
[To Greg Lehey: As anyone can edit the article, you could could add a
paragraph about bogus claims as to what cron means if you want, but, in my
opinion, the article is better without this distracting discussion.]
On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog(a)lemis.com>
wrote:
On Friday, 25 December 2015 at 10:41:54 -0800,
David wrote:
It has been updated again:
The origin of the name cron is from the Greek word for time,
???????????? (chronos).[2][3] (Ken Thompson, author of cron, has
confirmed this in a private communication with Brian Kernighan.)
Yes, but you've removed the reference to the incorrect expansions. As
I noted at some length earlier in this thread, that's not appropriate.
It ignores the fact that people have made these claims, it removes the
comment that they're unsubstantiated, and it prepares the field for
somebody else to make the claim again, with possibly even more bizarre
expmanations. I won't back it out yet, because I can see further
changes coming from other directions. Once again this Tedickey
character has been very active.
Greg
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