23 Dec
2015
23 Dec
'15
7:45 p.m.
ditto and +1
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 11:53 PM, Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> wrote:
As a guy who has donated money to Wikipedia this whole
thread makes
me not want to donate again. Just me being grumpy.
On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 08:44:07PM -0500, Norman Wilson wrote:
Perhaps Wikipedia would be satisfied if we could
get
Ken to write a letter to some current published journal,
saying that he's the one who named cron, he's heard
people are interested in how it got that name, here's
how. We could then cite that as a reference.
On the other hand, this may be an example of the
degree to which one should trust Wikipedia. The
`command run on notice' acronym claim is backed up
by an article from the AUUG (Hi Warren!) Proceedings,
1994, in which the first reference to cron gives
that explanation with no further reference.
If that's the quality of reference they accept, there
is simply no reason to take anything they publish
as gospel. Sorry.
Norman Wilson
Toronto ON
Proud that no one has yet made a spurious Wikipedia
page asserting the etymology of my personal domain
name.
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