20 Feb
2022
20 Feb
'22
12:44 a.m.
I undid all the macros for the v8 shell, with Steve's blessing, before
doing the key work on that shell. But no one outside cared about any of the
research Unixes after v7, sad though that is to admit, so his macros and
griping about them lingered on in the world.
I did the same to adb, which turned out to have a really good debugger
hidden under a few serious bugs of its own, which I fixed.
-rob
On Sun, Feb 20, 2022 at 4:46 AM Bakul Shah <bakul(a)iitbombay.org> wrote:
On Feb 19, 2022, at 8:11 AM, Clem Cole
<clemc(a)ccc.com> wrote:
On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 11:04 AM Steve Nickolas <usotsuki(a)buric.co> wrote:
Apparently Bourne was heavily into ALGOL,
That's sort of an understatement. I believe that when he was at
Cambridge, he was one of the people that helped to take the Algol-X
proposal and turned it into the Algol-68 definition. I also believe he
worked on their famous implementation of same.
Some of you may be interested in this “A history of Algol68” paper:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/234286.1057810
The author, Charles H Lindsey, still occasionally posts on comp.lang.misc
about Algol68. Among other things Bourne was a coauthor of Algol68C,
a portable implementation of Algol68.