25 Dec
2015
25 Dec
'15
7:05 a.m.
What's troubling is wikipedia, I didn't realize they were that much of a pain.
On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 04:52:33PM -0800, scj(a)yaccman.com wrote:
This has been a somewhat bizarre and troubling thread,
all in all.
Would anybody want to discuss the origin of 'ls'? Or 'at'?
Steve
PS: (that was NOT a serious suggestion!)
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On Thursday, 24 December 2015 at 10:17:53 -0500,
John Cowan wrote:
Clem Cole scripsit:
One of the original references was from the proceedings of an AUUG
conference. From personal experience I can confirm that the level of
review for the conferences fell far short of what USENIX did.
Rik in his role as the editor of ;login is going
to try work with Doug
and
to get something "published" into the next edition which should satisfy
the
Wikipedia folks. There is a minor issue is that Rik is technically
past
the deadline but due to the holiday, there are a few days of grace that
the
workers putting the issue together have said they will thankfully try
to
handle.
So maybe we can have get this fixed shortly.
I don't think so. Is ;login: a peer-reviewed journal? It doesn't
look like it to me. Still, the current state says:
The origin of the name cron is from the Greek word for
time, ???????????? (chronos), according to its author Ken
Thompson[2][better source needed]. Others have suggested that the
name comes from the Greek God Chronos[3] or that it is an acronym
for "Command Run On Notice"[4] or "Commands Run Over Night",[5]
but the references lack substantiation.
Even if someone is still grumbling on the talk page, that doesn't
substantially misrepresent anything that I can see.
Yes, that last sentence was my update. As I mentioned in an earlier
message, I think that it's appropriate that it should stay, if only to
stop people making the claim again in a more forceful manner.
But it would be nice to be able to remove the [better source needed].
It seems that there's only one person objecting to the changes. I've
asked him on the talk page what he really wants.
Greg
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