18 Sep
2019
18 Sep
'19
2:48 p.m.
On 2019-09-16 19:23 , Steffen Nurpmeso wrote:
One thing he says, and which is an interesting part of
this
thread, is
The statement of Eric Allman that Tichy used SCCS version
1 i cannot believe, because Tichy's releases are from 1982, and
SCCS version 4 was released as earyl as February 1977. SCCS
version 3 used a binary history format, by the way.
That should have addressed Eric Allman, but the longer i use email
in the public space the more i like that pub-like feeling. (And
not going to add that it reminds me of my childhood, where i was
a boy under elder seasoned men _also_.)
I did not claim that Tichy used SCCS v1. It's worse than that. He only
read the IEEE paper, which pre-dated RCS --- so far as I know he never
even tried SCCS release 4 (current at the time Tichy published), which
fixed the obvious problem in the release 1 design as originally
published. Despite careful descriptions of the changes, he refused to
stop slandering SCCS. He was truly standing on toes, not shoulders.
eric