14 Mar
2020
14 Mar
'20
6:40 a.m.
On Fri, 13 Mar 2020, Doug McIlroy wrote:
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For me coming from RSX-11D and RSTS/E it would have to be the shell; I
never realised that the command interpreter could be divorced from the OS,
along with the concept of building new tools with pipes.
Don't like how the shell works? Then just write your own, as there was
nothing special about it...
Originators of nearly half the list--pascal, struct,
parts, eqn--were
women, well beyond women's demographic share of computer science.
I never realised that; it is indeed worth remembering.
-- Dave