24 Jan
2023
24 Jan
'23
1:59 a.m.
I was hoping for a better easter egg. I dunno about y'all but when I see
">>>" .... my mind goes a certain place. Alas, no.
adam@m1-wired:~/git/phalanx/services/nublado$ dc
>> boot dqa0
Parse error: bad character 't'
<stdin>:1
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023 at 2:09 PM Joseph Holsten <joseph(a)josephholsten.com>
wrote:
On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, at 06:15, Dan Cross wrote:
them.
Per https://opensource.apple.com/releases/, they switched from
macOS Monterey 12 with GNU bc 1.06
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bc/tree/bc-21/bc
to macOS 13 with GH bc 4.0.2
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/bc/tree/bc-26/bc
I suspect this is similar to the replacement of bash with zsh for GPL
avoidance.
Interesting timeline though, https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/tag/4.0.2
was released in 2021-05-01, https://git.yzena.com/gavin/bc/src/tag/5.0.0
in 2021-08-08.
On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 10:41 PM George
Michaelson <ggm(a)algebras.org>
wrote:
I should
also also add, Mac has >>> as Rob noted. FreeBSD doesn't
Hmm, interesting. I wonder what version of macOS you both are running?
My old trashcan Mac (soon to be replaced!) is running the
next-to-most-recent version and doesn't have the `>>> ` prompt. My
laptop, running the latest (Ventura?) does.
I don't think I blame Apple for this, but rather something upstream of